MILTON TERCENTENARY.
CELEBRATIONS BEGUN IN LONDON. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 9th December. The celebration of tho Milton tercentenary was begun at London yesterday. The occasion %vas marked by an exhibition of Milton's works at the inauguration of the British. Academy, with special lectures on the same subject. John Milton, the celebrated English poet, was born in 1608, and died in 1674. At the age of 16 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1629. To this period belong most of his Latin poems. For the six years after 1830 he devoted himself to literature at Horton, near Windsor. In 1638 he went to Italy, but the Scottish war called him back in 1639. The first suggestion of "Paradise Lost," in the form of a tragedy, dates from 1640 ; it was actually commerced in epic Ho sold his rights in the poem for £5 down and the promise of three subsequent payments of £5 each. His "Paradise Regained" was published in 1671. The British Academy undertook by invitation the duty or arranging and carrying through national commemoration celebrations.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 138, 10 December 1908, Page 7
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