1660 년의 밀턴 = Milton in 1660

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The details of what happened to Milton immediately following the Restoration is not widely known. It is the object of this paper to trace the details of Milton's life as he went through the ordeals of 1660 and to suggest how this experience feeds through to the writing of the major poems. On top of his defenses of the regicide, Milton had further marked himself for retaliation by publishing The Readie and Easie Way, and was forced into hiding when Charles returned to claim his throne. Milton waited in darkness as Parliament sat in session to discuss the fate of the Republicans. With the intercession of friends, he was spared from the original list of those who were to be punished "short of death," but the relief was short-lived. His books were publicly burned by a hangman, and shortly after he was arrested. The short months through which he miraculously survived provide a background to the dark, contemplative side of his later poems. Too often the human ordeal has been slighted in favor of political and ideological interpretations of the poems, but the pain of surviving through the turbulent first months of the Restoration, with the knowledge that England's cause is irrevocably lost, should once again be considered in the reading of the poems. The crowds gathering for a spectacle in the temple of Dagon and the increasingly diminishing angels in Hell should be easily recognizable from the crowds gathering in the Tyburn for the grisly spectacle and the moral diminishment of Parliament, for which Milton had held such hopes.