from the notions of piety and prayer. It was also tied inextricably to the use of the Latin language, of which tongue Milton was a master. Most of his earliest poems are composed in that language, and he was able to write it as fluently as he wrote English. At the same time he was writing sonnets in Italian, directed principally at his close friend, Charles Diodati, with whom he shared that deep and sexless intimacy that was then so common among males.from The Times: Peter Ackroyd examines the legacy of Milton
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