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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


People best know John Milton, English scholar, for Paradise Lost , the epic poem of 1667 and an account of fall of humanity from grace.

Beelzebub, one fallen angel in Paradise Lost, of John Milton, lay in power next to Satan.

Belial, one fallen angel, rebelled against God in Paradise Lost of John Milton.


John Milton, polemicist, man of letters, served the civil Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote in blank verse at a time of religious flux and political upheaval.

Prose of John Milton reflects deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. He wrote in Latin, Greek, and Italian and achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebra ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 219,301 ratings · 9,811 reviews · 3,771 distinct works • Similar authors
Paradise Lost
3.86 avg rating — 181,888 ratings — published 1667 — 5034 editions
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Paradise Lost and Paradise ...
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4.07 avg rating — 7,942 ratings — published 1667 — 215 editions
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The Complete Poetry
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4.06 avg rating — 3,721 ratings — published 1645 — 47 editions
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Paradise Regained
3.69 avg rating — 3,575 ratings — published 1671 — 722 editions
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Samson Agonistes
3.75 avg rating — 2,958 ratings — published 1671 — 196 editions
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Areopagitica
3.85 avg rating — 2,594 ratings — published 1644 — 496 editions
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Complete Poems and Major Prose
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4.18 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 1957 — 11 editions
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Paradise Lost and Other Poems
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3.99 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 1674 — 47 editions
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The Riverside Milton
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4.25 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
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Paradise Lost, Book 1
3.68 avg rating — 729 ratings — published 1667 — 142 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
tags: inspirational, religion
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“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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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
tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
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