John Milton also wrote the hymn Let us with a gladsome mind, a versification of Psalm 136. His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso', with additional material, were magnificently set by Handel (1740). John Milton John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), written in blank verse. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international
The Story of Kullervo centre of Tolkien's efforts in 1914, as he was "trying to turn one of the stories [of the "Kalevala"] — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story" ("Letters", October 1914, #1). "The Story of Kullervo" was edited by Verlyn Flieger, published in 2010 in "Tolkien Studies", and republished in book form in August 2015 by HarperCollins. The Story of Kullervo "The Story of Kullervo" is a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in the Karelian and Finnish epic poem "Kalevala", written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at