Thursday, 6 September 2012

Life of Milton

So this is my first entry for school reading and it is Samuel Johnson's Life of Milton.  I feel a sort of kinship to Milton's political views and enjoy his staunch Parliamentarian attitudes which is why I had difficulty with Johnson.  He writes with such bias, and even if it is couched in humor, I still find it difficult to get past the fact Johnson is so different in politics.  His bias didn't pop up on every page, but it colored everything he said and put into the biography.  On some occasions his bias was blatant and in the foreground, and these passages were the least enjoyable.  It felt like listening to Fox News go at it.

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