John Milton was involved in many relationships, romantic and not, that impacted his various works and writings.
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“For when as each thing bad thou hast entombd,
And last of all, thy greedy self consumd,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss
With an individual kiss;”
—John Milton (16081674)
“What will you say, when I tell you truly, that I cannot possibly read our countryman Milton through. I acknowledge him to have most sublime passages, some prodigious flashes of light; but then you must acknowledge that light is often followed by darkness visible, to use his own expression.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)