Sentences with phrase «contemplated regicide»

In «The Killer of Kings,» the short story in Anjali Sachdeva's collection All the Names They Used for God, John Milton (1608 - 1674), secluded in the English countryside after being charged and fined for publishing a tract that contemplated regicide, writes his epic poem Paradise Lost with the help of a muse, an angel the blind poet can only see in his mind.