. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. on-fute the reasoning. It was a work requiring study andDefence 01 research as well as skill in argument. MiltonPeoS>gliSh be&an kut very soon the question came to him,i65i. whether to complete the paper or to save him-self from blindness, for he found that his sight wasrapidly failing. He made his choice and wrote his De-fence of the English People. Three years later, sittingin total darkness, he wrote, — 1637-1660] PURITANS AND ROYALISTS 123 What supports me, dost thou ask?The conscience, Friend, t have lost the
. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. on-fute the reasoning. It was a work requiring study andDefence 01 research as well as skill in argument. MiltonPeoS>gliSh be&an kut very soon the question came to him,i65i. whether to complete the paper or to save him-self from blindness, for he found that his sight wasrapidly failing. He made his choice and wrote his De-fence of the English People. Three years later, sittingin total darkness, he wrote, — 1637-1660] PURITANS AND ROYALISTS 123 What supports me, dost thou ask?The conscience, Friend, t have lost them overpliedIn libertys defence, my noble task 72. Miltons sonnets. From 1637 t0 x66o Milton wrote nothing but these stern, earnest pamphlets and a few sonnets, one in honor of Cromwell, and on the Late one, On the Late Massacre in Piemont, that Massacre in Piemont. sounds like the fiercest denunciations of a prophet. One* sonnet is on his own blindness;and here every one must bow in reverence, for, shutup in hopeless darkness, he grieves only lest his one. PRINTING-OFFICE OF 1619 talent is lodged with him useless, and the last linefairly glows with a transfigured courage,— They also serve who only stand and wait. Milton had need of courage, for in 1660 the power of 124 ENGLANDS LITERATURE [1593-1633 the Puritans was gone. The country was tired of their__„. strict laws, and Charles II, son of the be- Milton and 7 theResto- headed Charles, was brought back in triumphto the throne of his fathers. Milton mightwell have been pardoned for feeling that his sacrificeswere wasted. He was not without consolation, how-ever, for in his mind there was an ever brighteningvision of a glorious work that he hoped to accomplisheven in his darkness. 73. The religious poets, Herbert, Crashaw, for a while Milton, the poet of meditation, wereturn to the other writers of the time of contest be-tween the kings claim and the peoples right; first, to thereligious author
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