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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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God or thee,

Milton poured into his last three poems all that he had learned and thought and experienced about life, love, artistic creativity, religious faith, work, history, politics, man and woman, God and nature, liberty and tyranny, monarchy and republicanism, learning and wisdom.

Barbara K. Lewalski. (2010). Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. In: Michael O'Neill (ed.) The Cambridge History of English Poetry. pp. 255-280. [Online]. The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: Cambridge Histories Online < http://dx.doi.org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1017/CHOL9780521883061.016> [Accessed 23 October 2014].
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