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Shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music it i grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew then that george washington, john adams, john j, benjamin franklin, sam adams and nearly all the Founding Fathers were englishmen. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so later did settlers from germany, france and italy, austria, hungary poland, sweden swiss, russians chinese and all the countries who came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years. Since ...

Samuel Johnson wrote famously of the poet John Milton’s 10,000-line signature work, Paradise Lost: “None ever wished it longer than it is.” The sheer length of this epic poem, together with Milton’s densely Latinate vocabulary and style and his 17th-century religious preoccupations — Adam and Eve, God and Satan — have made attacking the pages of Paradise Lost, or any other of Milton’s many works, a daunting proposition for most people today. Indeed, few college English departments these days even offer stand-alone undergraduate courses on Milton (1608-1674), once considered Engla...