John Milton — "His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power."
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from John Milton
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
"Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war."
"Such as the world has known, in all her pomp, her pride, and her oppression."
"God made man, and out of man, woman."
"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."
About John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet whose Paradise Lost (1667) is the canonical English epic, written while blind during the Restoration after his service to Cromwell's Commonwealth. Closely associated with Andrew Marvell (Commonwealth poet and friend who protected Milton at the Restoration). For an intellectual contrast, see King Charles II's Restoration court, the courtly, sexually-libertine, theater-reopened world of 1660s London — Milton wrote Paradise Lost as a defeated Republican; the Restoration culture around him celebrated everything his Commonwealth had banned. The cleanest 'losing side writes the masterpiece' moment in English literature — Paradise Lost's Satan is freighted with the political defeat of the regicides Milton served.