John Milton's bawdy poem questioned
A long-lost poem discovered in the Oxford University archives could throw new light on the author of Paradise Lost, who died in 1674. The comic ditty, An Extempore upon a Faggot, is attributed to Milton and is laden with sexual innuendo.
However, scholars are unsure of its provenance and suspect it may have been the work of a jealous rival.
Dr Jennifer Batt, an academic in English Literature at Oxford, stumbled upon the poem while sifting through the Harding Collection, an assortment of poetic anthologies owned by the Bodleian Library....
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However, scholars are unsure of its provenance and suspect it may have been the work of a jealous rival.
Dr Jennifer Batt, an academic in English Literature at Oxford, stumbled upon the poem while sifting through the Harding Collection, an assortment of poetic anthologies owned by the Bodleian Library....