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Satan on the Burning Lake

Milton's 'On Shakespear' first appeared anonymously at the head of the second folio of Shakespeare's plays (1632). It was later reprinted in Milton's Poems ...1645 (pictured here), where its date of composition is given as 1630, carefully marking its place in the young poet's development.

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