The John Milton Reading Room
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Title
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The John Milton Reading Room
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Creator
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Thomas Luxon, English professor at Dartmouth College collaborated with his students to help formulate this project. It shows the audience what kind of written language people back then used.
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homepage
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https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml
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Description
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This is a collaboration project between a professor and his students where they take various historic poems of John Milton and put it all in one database for us to read. This database contains hyperlinked annotations, research guidelines to make researching easier, introductions, a search bar on the top right. At the bottom of the home page, there is copyright information along with a table of contents for the project itself. There are numerous of poems transcribed by the students and professors that date back to 1645. This project displays poetry from the early 1600’s. This project improves anybody's vocabulary. Nate Rogers
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Requirements
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You need to know the basic structures of poetry, along with a tentative reading skills to completely analyze the data,
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Alternatives
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Websites that have also transcribed these poems.
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Get Started
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One should learn how to analyze poems affectively.