John Milton
출생: December 09, 1608 – London, England, Kingdom of England
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant whose work shaped literature, politics, and theology. He is best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost, along with Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, his writings remain central to the literary canon.
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John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a prosperous middle-class household shaped by his father’s work as a scrivener and his strong musical interests. He studied first at St. Paul’s School and then at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he developed exceptional command of languages and rhetoric and wrote in Latin, Italian, and English while initially preparing for the clergy. A temporary rustication at Cambridge and his eventual decision not to enter the ministry marked important early turning points, directing him instead toward a self-consciously literary life. After receiving his M.A. in 1632, he spent years in disciplined private study in Buckinghamshire, composing early poems such as On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas, before traveling in France and Italy and meeting Galileo. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Milton))
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Paradise Lost (Large Print Edition)
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Areopagitica
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A passionate defense of free speech and press freedom, challenging censorship in 17th century England with enduring relevance today.
Paradise Lost (Large Print Edition)
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Epic journey through humanity's fall and divine redemption across time.
Paradise Lost
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Epic poem exploring humanity's fall from grace, featuring Satan's rebellion and Adam and Eve's temptation in Eden.
Areopagitica
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A passionate defense of free speech and press freedom, challenging censorship in 17th century England with enduring relevance today.
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"John Milton (1608–74) is considered the most significant English writer after William Shakespeare"
— Britannica
"Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee"
— William Wordsworth
"There could not have been a greater mistake than to suppose that Milton only shone on great subjects"
— William Hazlitt
"The English poet John Milton was a champion of liberty"
— Encyclopedia of World Biography
"The idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him inspired every act and every writing of John Milton"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable circumstances than Milton"
— Thomas B. Macaulay
"John Milton was "England's preeminent epic poet."
— Dictionary of Literary Biography
"Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind"
— Samuel Johnson
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