An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday. It is right that this anniversary should be kept in all English-speaking lands. Milton is as far away from us in time as Dante was from him; destructive criticism has been busy with his great poem; formidable rivals of his fame have arisen--Dryden and Pope, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Browning, not to speak of lesser names--poets whom we read perhaps oftener and with more pleasure. Yet still his throne remains unshaken. By general--by well-nigh universal--consent, he is still the second poet of our race, the greatest, save one, of all who have used the English speech…
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