Milton's first publication, A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle,
is examined. Milton's vision of a poet's heaven in "Ad Patrem,"
paired with the letter to Charles Diodati, with its particular
emphasis on the need for chastity in poets, is used as a
springboard to a discussion of the depiction of sexual ideals in
the masque. Revelation 14, 1 Corinthians, and the Apology for
Smectymnuus are also discussed at length, as are the poet's
biography and the history of the masque's title. A study of
Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources,
his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive
influence on the course of English poetry. As one of the world's
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