Milton

From one hillside Snowdon is a familiar peak; from another, almost a different mountain. John Cann Bailey begins by asking what happens when each age looks anew at Milton.

Writing in the early twentieth century, Bailey turns to the seventeenth-century poet amid England’s fierce national and religious struggles. He finds a man of towering ambition and unyielding conviction: a champion of liberty and righteousness whose prose could blaze with idealism, then scorch his opponents with personal fury. Milton’s greatness, Bailey argues, does not erase his harsher edges—and those edges do not make his greatness easier to dismiss. How do we reckon with a poet whose sublime vision came yoked to such a combative spirit?

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