Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed who was no U. S. citizen, who never visited America or wrote about it, but whose works every schoolboy is supposed to know-John Milton...
...England did not take Milton for its ideal because the poet belonged to a party. He was one of them, involved in their quarrels, and therefore refused by his opponents...
...Milton is the man who gives the American people a legitimate philosophy which works in with the material civilization which is necessary for them...
...believe the human soul has a value and that therefore the human being ought to be free. Milton stood out for this philosophy practically at the beginning and is still one of its best exponents...
...Summed up in a word. Milton's principles are 'liberty', the leading principle of American political democracy...