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JOHN MILTON

Born: London,England
Date: 16O8
Died: London
Date: 1674
Born in London 16O8. His father at an early age destined him to the "study of letters", and Milton became a devoted student first at St. Paul's School, then at Christ's College, Cambridge. After leaving Cambridge he lived with his father in studious retirement at Horton but in 1638 travelled for eighteen months on the Continent (mainly in Italy). Returning to England, he took up the cudgels against the Established Church and on behalf of the freedom of the Press. His first marriage (1643) proved unhappy. In 1949, he became Foreign Secretary to the Commonwealth. He lost his sight in 1653, the year of the death of his wife. Married a second time in 1656, a third time in 1663. After the restoration he was deprived of all his offices, forced to go into hiding, but by the Act of indemnity allowed to return to London, where he died in 1674.

Milton's Works

1.1629. Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, a poem characteristic of his beliefs and his imaginings.
2.1634. Comus, Masque, one of the most exquisite and perfect of his shorter peoems.
3.1637. Lycidas, a monody on the death of his friend, Edward King, published in the volume of 1638 which contained L'Allegro and Il Penseroso Comus, and other verses.
4.1644, Areopagetica and addressed to Parliament. The noblest and impressive of his many prose writings.
5.1667. Paradise Lost (originally divided into ten, afterwards into twelve books) the greatest of English epics, and ranking with the two great epics of the ancient world (the Iliad and the Aeneid).
6.1671. Paradise Regained (in four books) and Samson Agonistes (a noble drama on the Greek model).
7.His Sonnets ("soul-animating strains-alas,too few") were mainly written during his prose period.

JOHN MILTON, CLASSICAL POET

Milton's personality and temperament

Milton is one of those English poets whose personality and character are indelibly stamped upon their poetry. Milton's poetry is inseparable from Milton the man. The first thing that strikes in Milton's poetic personality is that he combines in himself what is best in classical and in Christian culture. If, on the one hand, he had the humanist's scholarship, culture, refinement, love of beauty, love of art and music, on the other hand he possessed the moral earnestness and religious zeal of the puritan. He always insisted on the purity and simplicity of private life. Milton's was a stern lover of liberty. Milton had a noble conception of the poets vocation.

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