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English poet John Milton (1608-1674) was also an essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. One of the most acclaimed works by Milton is the blank verse epic entitled "Paradise Lost," which is about the fall of man. Gale Group, Inc., a division of the Thomson Corporation, presents a biographical sketch of Milton as part of Poet's Corner, a resource featuring biographies of poets, poems, commentaries, poetry activities, and more. Access to Milton's "Sonnet 7," also known as "On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three, " is available.
Excerpt from John Milton: 1608-1674 Shakespeare's not excepted, no name is better known in the households of the land than Milton's. The popular Protestant conception of hell is largely Miltonic. The nursery teaching of the temptation in Eden, the rebellion of Satan and his punishment are traditionally Miltonic also, and much of the Puritan tone and colour of the sacred themes treated of in the great epic have entered into the religious thought of the ages from the poet's death until now. But with the average reader the knowledge of the poet and his works is very limited. His wish had been that he should a "fit audience find though few," and this has been fully realised. That such should be ...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton - John Milton (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.