How Is William Milton's Words Used In The English Language

Abstract:

This paper throws light on the English language used by both prominent authors of English literature, William Shakespeare and Milton. This paper aims to study the styles, words and phrases used by these world’s impeccable writers. Of the 17,677 words Shakespeare used in his works, 1,700 words were invented by Shakespeare. The words of Shakespeare reflect the time with vividness. Shakespeare’s language and strict discipline gave liveliness and intensity to his writing style. On the other hand, Milton’s contribution to English language and literature is no less important. His works remain as outstanding masterpieces in English literature. He too coined new terminologies in English and created new metaphor like epic similes. But in his actual practice in the

Even today you and I quote Shakespeare without knowing it: if you act more in sorrow than in anger, if you vanish into thin air or have ever been tongue-tied, hoodwinked or slept not one wink, you’re speaking the Bard’s English. Milton, say his fans, works on an altogether different, higher plane. In Paradise Lost – the best poem ever written in English – Milton moved beyond the literary to address political, philosophical and religious questions in a way that still resounds strongly today. In his complex, intellectual poetry he drilled down deep into the eternal truths and sought to embody new scientific discovery in his work.His engagement with the issues of the day – with the nature of knowledge, slavery, free will, love and creation – was unparalleled. Despite complete blindness in middle age, he was the English republic’s best known, most fervent apologist, and a key civil servant for Oliver Cromwell. In his other works, notably in Areopagitica, his attack on censorship, he showed himself as much a master of prose as well as poetry. He defines not only his age, but