Word: miltons
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Perhaps there is no stronger association of a work with a name than that of Paradise Lost with the name of John Milton. In fact so close is this connection, that many are almost insensible to the fact that Milton was anything besides a poet, although he was in addition, very active in the political and religious life of his time...
...little known generally is that he was one of the most noted sectaries of the time, there being in the list of sects drawn up by contemporary Protestant writers, special mention of one known as "Miltonists" or "Divorcers". The latter name was given to it as a result of Milton's strong views on that subject...
About the end of May, 1643, Milton went forth on a journey without saying whether or why. When a month or so later he returned it was with a young wife, the daughter of Richard Powell, a strong Royalist from near Oxford. It was almost impossible that the marriage should turn out happily, not did it. Mary Powell was little over 1 years old, while Milton was 35. More over she was scarcely of a temperament which would easily suit itself to his. In a very short time she went on a visit to her parents and refused to return...
...Milton now, fearless and speculative, converted his own case into a public protest against the existing laws and theory of marriage, in a pamphlet entitled "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Restored to the good of both Sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law and other Mistakes...
...clock today, Professor Murdock will lecture in Sever 11 on the more important characteristics of the life, religion and politics of John Milton...