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Milton
borrowed from St. Avitus his description of Paradise (book i.),
of Satan (book ii.), and many other parts of Paradise Lost. He
also borrowed very largely from Du Bartas (1544-1591), who wrote an
epic poem entitled The Week of Creation, which was translated
into almost every European language. St. Avitus wrote in Latin
hexameters The Creation, The Fall, and The Expulsion from
Paradise. (460-525.)
Milton.
“Milton,” says Dryden, in the preface to his Fables, “was
the poetical son of Spenser. ... Milton has
acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original.”
Milton of Germany.
Friedrich G. Klopstock, author of The Messiah. (1724-1803.)
Coleridge says he is “a very German Milton indeed.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Milton from Infoplease:
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