VirginiaHuguenot
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Has anyone had occasion to read Samuel Slater's collection of poems inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost entitled Poems in two parts first, an interlocutory discourse concerning the creation, fall, and recovery of man : secondly, a dialogue between faith and a doubting soul (1679)? Thoughts?
Slater says:
Slater says:
I was much taken with learned Mr. Milton's cast and fancy in his book -- viz. "Paradise Lost." Him I have followed much in his method, but I have used a more plain and familiar style.