Back to his mountain clomb, now bleak and frore,
And with the awful night he dwelt alone,
In darkness, listening to the thunder’s roll.
Ernest Myers, Milton
5. “Milton neither belonged to nor founded a school.” Expand this statement, and try to account for the truth of it.
6. Point out the effects, good and bad, of the civil and religious strife upon the literature of the time.
7. “Both in prose and poetry the period is a turning-point in the history of English literature.” Discuss this statement.
8. Write a brief essay on “The Poetry of Puritanism.”