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John Milton


Born
in Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England
December 09, 1608

Died
November 08, 1674

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Genre
Poetry, Politics

Influences
William Shakespeare, Ovid, Henry More, Oliver Cromwell, Bede, Dante Al ...more


John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, 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 (1667), written in blank verse.

Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)—written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship—is among history's most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press.

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Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost and Paradise ...
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4.07 avg rating — 7,700 ratings — published 1667 — 212 editions
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The Complete Poetry
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4.06 avg rating — 3,701 ratings — published 1645 — 68 editions
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Paradise Regained
3.67 avg rating — 3,135 ratings — published 1671 — 719 editions
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Samson Agonistes
3.73 avg rating — 2,654 ratings — published 1671 — 196 editions
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Areopagitica
3.85 avg rating — 2,395 ratings — published 1644 — 485 editions
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Complete Poems and Major Prose
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4.18 avg rating — 1,122 ratings — published 1957 — 11 editions
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Paradise Lost and Other Poems
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3.98 avg rating — 866 ratings — published 1674 — 17 editions
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The Riverside Milton
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4.26 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions
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Paradise Lost, Book 1
3.69 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 1667 — 140 editions
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica
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