John Milton
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| Born: | December 9 1608 Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England |
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| Died: | November 8 1674 (aged 65) Bunhill, London, England |
| Occupation: | Poet, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant |
| Influences: | Dante Alighieri, Ludovico Ariosto, The Bible, Homer, Ovid, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Virgil |
| Influenced: | William Blake, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley |
John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. He is famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost.
His father was John Milton, his mother Sarah Jerry. His brother, Christopher, reported him to have been studying very long into the night each day.
After receiving his Master of Arts degree on July 3, 1632, he stayed at home and studied for six years. He would write much poetry, and soon married Mary Powell, a young girl of 17 compared with his age of 34.
[change] Other websites
- Works by John Milton at Project Gutenberg
- Milton Reading Room – online, almost fully annotated, collection of all of Milton's poetry and selections of his prose
- Milton 400th Anniversary – lots of Milton material and details of the Milton 400th Anniversary Celebrations, from Christ's College, Cambridge, where Milton studied
- "Milton and De Doctrina Christiana" by Gordon Campbell et al., 1996
- "The masque in Milton's Arcades and Comus" by Gilbert McInnis
- History of the John Milton Society for the Blind in Canada
- How Milton Works by Stanley Fish
- Milton's cottage
- Paradise Lost by John Milton, Introduction and Notes by David Hawkes
- A common-place book of John Milton, and a Latin essay and Latin verses presumed to be by Milton Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection. {Reprinted by} Cornell University Library Digital Collections
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