Why did they hate Milton?
>>25272549Envy. Whenever a literary great inexplicably hates another literary great, the motive is always envy.
>>25272549Following in the Johnsonian tradition.
>>25272549Read what they wrote, for a start. Then, if you think their complaints are unreasonable, you might look for other reasons.~When Milton writes‘Him who disobeys me disobeys'he is, quite simply, doing wrong to his mother tongue. He meantWho disobeys him, disobeys me.It is perfectly easy to understand WHY he did it, but his reasons prove that Shakespeare and several dozen other men were better poets. Milton did it because he was chock a block with Latin. He had studied his English not as a living language, but as something subject to theories.— ‘ABC Of Reading’
>>25272549They are quite clear in their trashing. Milton was writing in some bizarre Anglo-Latin pseudo-academic dialect even worse than the Douay-Rheims version (who had the excuse of being a deliberately literal translation).
>>25273508Milton writes in that 'dialect' with the effect of superb expressiveness and music, the Douay-Rheims writes in it out of verbal incompetence. They are not the same.
>why did two poets who thought very highly of Dante and Shakespeare think poorly of an author who was a Temu chimera of both, who was mostly appreciated for political reasons in the last 200 years anyway
>>25273543They both completely fail at the English language. The DR had other objectives which were fulfilled. Milton pretended to write original works in English, hence the dishonesty and lackluster results.
>2k years later and the brittanioids still seethesmugcaesar.jpg
>>25273657What is it that makes them seethe so?
>>25272549Really don’t give a fuck about what some retarded Amerikkkans have to say about Milton
>>25272549If you're collecting anti-Milton writers, then you might want to check out Robert Graves. He didn't like him much. See his essay collection "The Crowning Privilege" (not to mention the historical novel, "Wife To Mr. Milton").In WTMM he makes Milton out to be a total piece of shit (which is quite plausible to be fair).In TCP he says "Milton was not a major poet. He was a minor poet with a major musical gift" or something like that.Of course, Graves lays into just about everyone in TCP. He thinks there have only been (IIRC) 15 "real" poets in English. (He's one, of course.)People he thinks are wildly overrated:Dylan ThomasEzra PoundW. H. AudenNietzsche (he REALLY hates Nietzsche)Alexander Popeand many more . . .
>>25273733this and checked
>>25273754>(He's one, of course.)Kek. I disagree on Milton but I do agree with the others other than Pope.As a poet, he himself was… okay, not as good as those he critiques. Shakespeare seems to be the only one who for the most part is exempt from criticism by most fellow poets anyway.
>>25272549Milton's depiction of Satan is Enlightenment hubris. the only real answer. the long 20th century was a response to that particular period.
>>25273791Milton was pre-Enlightenment by quite a way.
>>25273869Descartes was the first nail in the coffin of western Christianity. Milton came a bit later, Enlightenment was just taking off and culminated in Voltaire. Come on, man.
>>25273544They were retarded, like you.
>>25273554>They both completely fail at the English language.Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the SunWhen first on this delightful Land he spreadsHis orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,Glistring with dewWow such a failure at the English language.
