How Soon Hath Time-John Milton| IV Sem Bcom English Bangalore University
visit website https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ CHAPTER – 4 HOW SOON HATH TIME - John Milton About the author John Milton was an English poet ,polemicist,pamphleteer, and a civil servant during the commonwealth era of England.A scholarly man of letters, Milton’s prose and poetry deal with contemporary issues and reflect the religious flux and political upheaval of England of his time. He is best known for his epic poems ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’. Writing in English, Latin, Greek and Italian, he achieved international fame and his celebrated ‘Areopagitica’ (1644) written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship is among History’s most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and the press. He is regarded as one of the greatest English writers of all time. How Soon Hath Time, a Petrarchan sonnet, is believed to have been written by Milton on his birthday . Milton begins the poem in a tone of frustration and ...