‘Something...Written to Aftertimes’
Milton’s literary and political writings have had a profound and lasting impact on our culture. It is possible to trace his fiercely argued republican ideals through into the French Revolution, or the American Declaration of Independence. Paradise Lost served as a well of popular teaching, mediating the Bible for generations of English Christians. The imaginative richness of the world Milton creates in Paradise Lost has served as a leaping-off-point for poets, novelists, composers, film-makers, and artists of all kinds. Without Milton could we have imagined modern-day epics such as George Lucas’s Star Wars, or Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials?
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