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		<title>Paradise Lost (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Milton’s epic of the Fall explores freedom and obedience in sweeping blank verse — theology unfolding as dramatic action.]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Milton’s pastoral elegy blends classical rite and Christian prophecy, turning grief into renewed vocation.]]></description>
		
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		<title>On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Milton’s Sonnet XIX reframes vocation through patience: “They also serve who only stand and wait.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>L&#8217;Allegro (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Milton’s ode to mirth celebrates festivity as a disciplined joy — pastoral song and theater shaping perception and virtue.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Il Penseroso (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Milton’s companion ode to contemplation praises learned solitude, ritual, and vision as a humane counterbalance to mirth.]]></description>
		
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