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When Milton wrote his great sonnet, "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont," he had just been engaged in one of the most bitter Controversies in his life. In an anonymous pamphlet he had been attacked as a "monster, ugly, huge, bereft of sight," and he answered these charges in even more violent language. After this bitterness had passed, Milton brought forth the eloquent eighteenth sonnet, believed by many critics to be his greatest.
Recommended Citation
Misch, Tom
(1948)
"AVENGE, O LORD,"
Manuscripts: Vol. 16
:
Iss.
2
, Article 15.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/manuscripts/vol16/iss2/15
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