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Milton's Paradise Regain'd and Herbert's Love (III).(poets John Milton and George Herbert)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070922
Author:Hillier, Russell M.

John Milton entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read for his BA and MA from 1625 to 1632, before commencing his regimen of private study in Hammersmith and Horton. George Herbert's Cambridge career began more than a decade before Milton matriculated there in 1625: Herbert was Minor Fellow in 1614, Major Fellow and Sublector quartae classis in 1617, and Praelector in Rhetoric in 1618. Herbert was distinguished as University Orator in 1620, an office he maintained until 1628, nearly three years into Milton's residence, after which time Herbert assumed the Bemerton ...

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