The Literature Network - Literary star in Shropshire; MIDLANDS archive Chris Upton looks at how John Milton came to write at Ludlow Castle, and below, Ross Reyburn discovers the poet's work is still remembered.

Literary star in Shropshire; MIDLANDS archive Chris Upton looks at how John Milton came to write at Ludlow Castle, and below, Ross Reyburn discovers the poet's work is still remembered.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20000318
Author:Upton, Chris

Aruined castle on the Welsh borders. A great hall with holes for windows and the key for a roof. We all visit ancient buildings and wonder what it would have been like to be there when the windows had glass and the visitors did not carry guide books.

But here at Ludlow one night in particular captures the imagination and any historian or literary scholar would give their right arm to have been present. And they scour the manuscripts to recapture that moment.

The night in question was Michaelmas (September 29) in the year 1634.

John Egerton, the Earl of Bridgewater, ...

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Literary star in Shropshire; MIDLANDS archive Chris Upton looks at how John Milton came to write at Ludlow Castle, and below, Ross Reyburn discovers the poet's work is still remembered.

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