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Show Milton, Scolt, Defoe, Bach Late-Flowering Geniuses Cervantes was fifty-eight when the first part of "Don Quixote" was given to the public. Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" were the product of his old age. Milton was sixty when he began to compose "Paradise Lost." Daniel Defoe was fifty-eight when he produced 'Robinson Crusoe." Cru-soe." - Bunyan did not begin "Pilgrim's "Pil-grim's Progress" until he was more than forty. Sir Walter Scott was forty-three before he began to attract attention atten-tion by his writings. 1 Bach did not compose until he was past forty. Darwin did not begin to write his "Origin of the Species" until long past forty. Franklin was more than forty when he began his investigation of electricity. |