john milton

     

John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist an civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multiple societies and scholarly journals devoted to his study, Milton's reputation remains as strong as ever in the 21st century.

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  • This author of "Paradise Lost" is sometimes considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare
  • He wrote an ode called "On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity" decades before "Paradise Lost"
  • He had been totally blind for 13 years when he completed "Paradise Lost" in 1665
  • In a preface to "Paradise Lost" he called rhyme "The invention of a barbarous age, to set off...lame meter"
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  • In 1667 Jonathan Swift was born & this poet published "Paradise Lost"
  • "Malt does more than" this poet "can to justify God's ways to man"
  • He completed a sonnet "On His Blindness" circa 1655 & one "On His Deceased Wife" in 1658
  • In "Paradise Lost", he wrote of "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme"
  • This British poet wrote, "When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide"
  • In "On His Blindness" this blind poet wrote, "They also serve only who stand and wait"
  • He wrote a 1671 poet about the biblical Samson, who like him suffered blindess
  • He regained paradise with 2nd wife Katharine & mourned her in "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"
  • In 1652 this "heavenly" epic poet wrote a sonnet praising Oliver Cromwell as "our chief of men"
  • This 17th century poet believed that studying until midnight each night is what first injured his eyes
  • This poet's third daughter, Deborah, was born in 1652, shortly after he went totally blind

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