John Milton Flashcards
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- Milton lived through:
The Caroline, Commonwealth and Restoration Age.
- What post did Milton hold during the Commonwealth Government?
Latin Secretary
- At what age did milton become Blind ?
At the age of 44.
- How many times did Milton marry ?
Three times.
- How many books are there in Paradise Lost ?
Paradise Lost- 12.
- Milton’s Samson Agonistes is
Samson Agonistes- A poetic Play.
- Name the woman whom Samson Agonistes loved and who betrayed him ?
Delilah
- In which Book of Paradise Lost Adam and Eve meet for the first time?
Book IV
- “Fame is the last infirmity of the Noble mind”
Which poem of Milton does this line occur ?
“Fame is the last infirmity of the Noble mind”- Lycidas.
- Lycidas is a _________poem.
Pastoral Elegy
- Lycidas is written by Milton on the death of his friend _______ ?
Edward King ( accidental death of drowning)
- who said of Milton: “thy soul was like a start, and dwelt apart” ?
“thy soul was like a start, and dwelt apart” - by Wordsworth.
- “Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour”who remembers Milton so passionately in a sonnet ?
“Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour”- Wordsworth
- Milton Paradise Lost is divides I to same number of books as _____________
Divine Comedy - 12.
- Who is next in command after Satan in the “Paradise Lost” ?
Beelzebub
- “What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support” which book of Paradise Lost do these lines appear?
Book I - dark illumine
- Which book of Paradise Lost beging with Invocation of Light ?
Book III
- In which book of Paradise Lost
Does Milton discuss the principles of Free Will and Divine Justice ?
Free Will and Divine Justice - Paradise Lost Book III
- How many English sonnets in all were written by Milton ?
18.
- “Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms” this is the first line of a sonnet written by Milton. What is the title of the sonnet ?
When the Assault was intended to the City.
- Milton wrote a sonnet on the death of his wife. The sonnet is entitled “On His Deceased Wife”
What was the name of his wife who was deceased ?
Catherine Woodcock
- What is the Milton’s “Comus” ?
A masque
- “They also serve who only stand and wait” this is the concluding line of a Sonnet written by Milton. What is the title of the Sonnet ?
On his Blindness.
- In Milton’s famous Masque “Comus” an important character is Circe. Who was Circe ?
The mother of Comus.
- Milton borrowed the theme for Comus from:
Homer’s Odyssey.
- Milton’s has written another poem entitled II Penseroso. What is the meaning of the title ?
Penseroso - a very melancholy man.
- Milton has written a poem entitled L’Allegro. What is the meaning of the title ?
L’Allegro - A very Cheerful man.
- “Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe”
What fruit is that ?
Apple.
- “What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And the courage never to submit or yeild”
Who encourages his followers in these words ?
Satan
- “A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven” these lines shows the spirit of :
Renaissance
- What is Milton’s “On the Nativity. Of Christ ?”
An Ode
- . . . “I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues;
In darkness, and with dangers compassed round,
And solitude. . . .”
(Paradise Lost Book 7)
In these words Milton describes a certain stage in his own life. When did such a stage occur in his life ?
When the age of Restoration came.
- “O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,
Oskilled to sing of time or eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.” Who praised Milton in these lines?
Alfred Tennyson in Alcaics
34 “ Three Poets, in three distant Ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The First in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The Next in Majesty; in both the Last.
The force of Nature could no farther go:
To make a third she joined the former two.”
It’s the John Dryden’s epigram on Milton -1688
- “Nor second he that rode sublime upon the Seraph- wings of Posey,
The secrets of the abyss of spy,
Where Angels tremble when they gaze,
he saw “ who praises Milton in these poetic lines ?
Thomas gray
38 “Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life’s common way,
In cheerful godliness;”
These praise are written to Milton by
Wordsworth in London,1802 poetry.
- “Before the greatness displayed in Milton’s poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agent are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind.”
Who admires Milton’s paradise lost in these lines?
Dr. Johnson.
38.”….he died,
Who was the sure of an immortal strain,
Blind,old and lovely , when his country’s pride,
The priest, the slave and the liberticide
Trampled and mocked with many loathed rite of lust and blood.”
These line are from Adonis by Shelley. Elegy written to mourn the death of his friend John Keats.
It is also refered to Milton praise
