Milton's England

Milton's England by Lucia True Ames Mead is about English poet John Milton's experience of his beautiful home country. John Milton's 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. Excerpt: «The London into Which Milton Was Born 11 II. Milton's Life on Bread Street 42 III. Milton at Cambridge 57 IV. Milton at Horton 78 V. Milton on the Continent.—In St. Bride's Churchyard.—At Aldersgate Street.—The Barbican.—Holborn.—Spring Gardens 85 VI. Milton at Whitehall.—Scotland Yard.—Petty France.—Bartholomew Close.—High Holborn.—Jewin Street.—Artillery Walk. 101 VII. Chalfont St. Giles.—Artillery Walk. 112 VIII. The Tower.—Tower Hill 126 IX. All Hallows, Barking.—St. Olave's.—St. Catherine Cree's.—St. Andrew Undershaft 143 X. Crosby Hall.—St. Helen's.—St. Ethelburga's.—St. Giles's, Cripplegate 164 XI. Gresham College.—Austin Friars.—Guildhall.—St. Mary's, Aldermanbury.—Christ's Hospital.—St. Sepulcher. 184 XII. Charterhouse.—St. John's Gate.—St. Bartholomew's.—Smithfield.»