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Poems Of John Dryden: On Milton

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Dryden, John

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On Milton

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.

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