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Works of John Milton: The Sonnets (Various dates)

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Milton, John

Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Sonnets (Various dates):

Milton wrote twenty-four sonnets of which five are in Italian. Some were
conventional addresses to friends or acquaintances, some (such as the one on
his blindness and the one to his dead wife) are very personal. Others are
addressed to political figures of the day, such as General Fairfax,
Cromwell, or Sir Harry Vane, or allude to recent events, such as the
slaughter of the Vaudois by the Duke of Savoy in 1653. The sonnets have been
carefully studied by John Smart, in his Sonnets of Milton (Glasgow:
Maclehose, Jackson and Co., ...

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