What John Milton thinks about taste
English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674); author of Paradise Lost and Areopagitica.
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1 dated position, c. 1644, in their own words. Our reading of what John Milton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.