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THE PORTRAIT OF MILTON by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THREE POETS, IN THREE DISTANT AGES BORN
Last Line: TO MAKE A THIRD, SHE JOINED THE FORMER TWO.
Subject(s): MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674);
THREE Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The next in majesty; in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third, she joined the former two.


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