‘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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	John Dryden (1608–1674) The State of Innocence, And Fall of Man: An Opera, 1674.
	John Milton (1608–1674) Paradise Lost. Illustrated by William Blake (The Folio Society, 2006).
	William Blake (1757-1827) Milton: A Poem, 1804.
		Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) Frankenstein, 1818.
	Philip Pullman (b.1946) His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, 1995. The Subtle Knife, 1997. The Amber Spyglass, 2000.
	Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) Scenes from Comus, 2005.
	Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) A Treatise of Civil Power, 2007.
	Ronald Johnson (1935–1998) Radi os, 1977.
	Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) The Sandman: Season of Mists 4, 1992.
	Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) Milton in America, 1997.

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