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On the Fifth of November
poem by Milton
Also known as: “In Quintum Novembris”
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discussed in biography
- In John Milton: Early translations and poems of John Milton
…is “In Quintum Novembris” (“On the Fifth of November”), which Milton composed in 1626 at Cambridge. The poem celebrates the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes was discovered preparing to detonate explosives at the opening of Parliament, an event in which King James I…
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