John Milton's work

Discuss two of Milton's works where his strong distinctive personality appears. As we are studying the era of the renaissance we must not forget its central literary figure who is John Milton. Milton appears in a very sensitive period when London was living a struggle between the king Charles' followers who are called the Cavaliers and the parliaments who named themselves the Roundheads represented by the Puritans. John Milton is a puritan poet. He plays …

…are weak creatures and they want to be controlled. It is Milton's personality that appears here. Like the girl, Milton remains glorious and victorious till the end. He presented the idea of virtue as something difficult to be achieved. Like any other poet, Milton has tried to reflect his own ideas and personality in his works. He does not want to create new policy in writing, but to present his own thinking in poetic form.