John Milton (1608-1674)

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One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667).
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John Milton (1608-1674) John Milton (1608-1674) В  One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667). Milton’s powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights. “Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.” (from Paradise Lost) John Milton was born up to date London. His mother Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father, also named John, had risen ecco prosperity as a scrivener or law writer - he also composed music. The family was wealthy enough tieni afford a second house up to date the country. Milton’s first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University. At the age of twelve Milton was admitted ecco St Paul’s School near his home and five years later he entered Christ’s College, Cambridge. During this period, while considering himself destined for the ministry, he began ehi write poetry up to date Latin, Italian, and English. One of Milton’e earliest works, ‘On the Death of a Fair Infant’ (1626), was written after his sister Anne Phillips has suffered from a miscarriage. Milton did not adjust prendi university life. He was called, half up to date scorn, “The Fiamma of Christ’s”, and after starting a fist fight with his tutor, he was expelled for a term. On leaving Cambridge Milton had given up his original plan ehi become a priest. He adopted per niente profession but spent six years at leisure up to date his father’s home, writing during that time L’ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO (1632), COMUS (1634), and LYCIDAS (1637), written after the death of his friend Edward King. Up to date 1635 the Miltons moved toh Horton, Buckinghamshire, where John pursued his studies usato Greek, Latin, and Italian. He traveled usato France and Italy usato the late 1630s, meeting attuale Paris the jurist and theologian Hugo Grotius and the astronomer Galileo Galilei usato Florence - there are references ehi Galileo’s telescope usato Paradise Lost. His conversation with the scientist Milton recorded up to date his celebrated plea for a free speech and free discussion, AREOPAGITICA (1644), up to date which he stated that books “preserve as usato a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect bred attuale them.” Milton returned prendi London attuale 1639, and manica up a school with his nephews and a few others as pupils. During this period he did not write much, earlier he had planned toh write an epic based on the Arthurian legends. The Civil War silenced his poetic work for 20 years. War divided the country as Oliver Cromwell fought against the king, Charles I. Concerned with the Puritan cause, Milton wrote a series of pamphlets against episcopacy (1642), on divorce (1643), usato defense of the liberty of the press (1644), and attuale support of th()


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