Unlike many other authors and poets, Milton gives us many reasons to believe that his life is reflected in his writing. ... Since we have good biographical information about the author and we have many of his writings, if not all, we can make judgments on where the true inspiration lies and then give the reader a primary voice as a critic. ... As Peter Herman writes in Warring chains of signifiers, "But by situating the Republic in Hell, both through allusions to the Parliament of Hell genre and the Etruscans, and by comparisons that a contemporary reader could not have failed to remember th...

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