150 jaar geleden is de Londense schrijver en politicus (hem werd zelfs de troon van Griekenland aangeboden, welke vacant was na de troonsafstand van koning Otto) Edward Bulwer-Lytton overleden.
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355 years ago: “Paradise lost” for £10
Tomorrow it will be exactly 355 years ago the blind and impoverished John Milton sold the copyright of “Paradise Lost” for £10. It reminds me that we had to write an essay about him when we were students at the university. I gave mine the title: “John Milton: a poetical pamphleteer or a pamphleteering poet?”
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