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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Such are the men, with one exception, who form that great group but where is he, the central figure - perhaps the greatest of them all? Down in Buckinghamshire, at his father's country house, lives john Milton, the poet. There, in his early manhood, for he is only twenty-five, the poet is beginning to send forth those gleams of light that be speak a glorious genius in its dawn.