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Episode 4

The EssayJohn Milton, the Essayist
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Poet Tom Paulin responds to Milton's Second Defence of the English People - a response to a royalist treatise - revealing how profound was Milton's republican thinking, and how Paradise Lost is a republican as well as religious poem.

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Thu 11 Dec 200823:00
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