John Milton — a remark

From the V2Melody quotations library — share the card, then explore the poet and poems below.

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”

Portraying books as vessels that transmit the vitality of their authors’ minds · Areopagitica (essay), 1644

About John Milton

John Milton

9 December 1608–8 November 1674

John Milton, born in London on 9 December 1608 and dead there on 8 November 1674, lived through one of the most violent and intellectually fertile passages in English history. He was a poet, polemicist, scholar, civil servant, religious controversialist, educator, translator, and theorist of political liberty. To many…

More by John Milton

Poems by John Milton

All poems by this poet

More remarks by John Milton

All remarks by this poet

Poet page · All remarks · Quotations hub

Skip to main content