An Analysis Of John Milton's Quintum Novembris

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Literature is filled by various examples of traitors and one of the most exemplary traitors is John Milton of “Paradise Lost” who wrote “Quintum Novembris” in 1626. Milton wrote it because he was still being affected by what occurred and acts as the beginning of the famous poem. Many of Milton’s works make his English appear inconsistent. On one hand, his early sonnets written to his Italian friends to thoroughly defend the artistic as well as the intellectual integrity of the English and favourably compares to the countries of classical antiquity. In the miniature epic regarding the Gunpowder plot contained in “Quintum Novembris”, he communicates the special message of God over the English and celebrates England’s salvation from a Catholic

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