49. Milton

49. Milton

The Puritan theology of Milton cannot appeal to the imagination of our age. Very few people read him. Voltaire is quite true in saying that Milton’s popularity will go on increasing because nobody reads him. There is, however, one thing in Milton. No poet has been more serious about his task than him. His style – a gigantic architecture consecrated to false deities – will always stand untouched by the palsied hand of time.