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Article: The Riverside Milton.(Review)

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September 1, 1998
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Roy Flannagan, editor The Riverside Milton. Houghton Mifflin, 1,213 pages, $45

Surprising though it may be to us that a man could become famous overnight simply by writing an essay on Milton, that is what happened to young Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1825. His contribution to The Edinburgh Review was hailed as the definitive refutation of Johnson's notoriously grumpy attack in Lives of the Poets (1779). Macaulay's case for Milton's importance was easy to make, and remains powerful. For three hundred years, he has been among the acknowledged masters of English poetry and polemical literature, his significance recognized by admirers and detractors alike. His ... 







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