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Milton wrote another great poem titled Paradise Regained. It is more severe but less
splendid than his first epic poem. Samson Agonistes is a tragedy on the Greek model. It
describes the sorrowful last days of a blind prisoner, Samson in the hands of the
Philistines. Some of the sorrowful expressions of Samson reflect Milton’s own personal
feelings.
Lyric Poets
Apart from John Milton there were other several lyric-writers who have left us sweet
songs. One of them was Richard Lovelace, who wrote To Althea, from Prison and To
Lucasta, on Going to the Wars. One of the best living lyric poets of that time was Robert
Herrick. He writes well about the English country and its flowers. His love songs are
also sweet.
At about this time Edmund Waller wrote some of the earliest heroic couplets, a form of
verse which was widely used in the next hundred and fifty years. In this meter a couplet
is a pair of lines, rhyming and of five iambic feet. Waller wrote His Majesty's Escape in
the meter and he has been honoured for inventing the heroic couplet, but there are other
poets for whom the claim is made. They include Shakespeare, who wrote in Othello,
long before Waller's poem.