1. John Milton - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton

John Milton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search John Milton Born December 9 Bread Street, Cheapside, London England Died November 8 Bunhill, London England Occupation Poet, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant Influences Dante Alighieri Ludovico Ariosto The Bible Homer ... Virgil Influenced Philip Pullman C. S. Lewis William Blake John Keats ... Geoffrey Hill For other persons named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation) John Milton December 9 November 8 ) was an English poet prose polemicist , and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England . Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost , Milton is celebrated as well for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica . Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multiple societies and scholarly journals devoted to his study, Milton’s reputation remains as strong as ever in the 21st century. Very soon after his death—and continuing to the present day—Milton became the subject of partisan biographies, confirming T. S. Eliot’s belief that “of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions…making unlawful entry.” Milton’s radical

2. John Milton John Milton was born in London. His mother, Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. Milton s father, also named John, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jmilton.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne John Milton (1608-1674) One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667). Milton's powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden." (from Paradise Lost John Milton was born in London. His mother, Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. Milton's father, named John, too, had risen to prosperity as a scrivener or law writer he also composed madrigasl and psalm settings. The family was wealthy enough to afford a second house in the country. Milton's first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University. Milton took part in small domestic consorts, he played often a small organ and he had "delicate, tuneable voice". At the age of twelve Milton was admitted to St Paul's School near his home. Five years later he entered Christ's College, Cambridge. While considering himself destined for the ministry, he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English. One of Milton'e earliest works, 'On the Death of a Fair Infant' (1626), was written after his sister Anne Phillips had suffered from a miscarriage. 'In inventorem bombardae' (On the inventor of gunpowder), a piece in a series on the occasion of the Gunpowder Plot, contains Milton's first portrayal of Satan.

3. John Milton John Milton was born 9 December 1608 in Cheapside1 under the sign of the Spread Eagle2. His father, John Milton, Senior, was a fairly wellknown composer http://incompetech.com/authors/milton/

the website with the self-referential tagline... John "The Lady" Milton John Milton was born 9 December 1608 in Cheapside under the sign of the Spread Eagle . His father, John Milton, Senior, was a fairly well-known composer who contributed to a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth . The elder John had been disinherited by his wealthy Roman Catholic family when he decided to go with the flow and turn Protestant. He had the last laugh, though; he managed to become wealthy all on his own. So the younger John had a good education , both because the money was there and because John, Sr. thought his son showed great promise. John was the second of the three children who survived past infancy. He had an older sister named Anne and a younger brother named Christopher, who would eventually become a Royalist, a Catholic, and a lawyer; three things which John would eventually grow to hate John wrote seven or eight poems in Latin while in school , but never at this time seriously considered a career in writing. He read a great deal even beyond his schoolwork as preparation for a career in the Church or perhaps politics. Unfortunately, his eyesight, bad since childhood, was made even worse by all this study, and he frequently suffered terrible headaches . After finishing his formal schooling, he took a tour of the Continent, as many well-off young men did at that time

4. John Milton John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middleclass family. He was educated at St. Paul s School, then at Christ s College, Cambridge, http://www.poets.org/jmilt/

5. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of John Milton John Milton was born in London in 1608 at the height of the Protestant Reformation in England. His father was a law writer who had achieved some success by http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_john_milton.html

My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of John Milton (1608-1674) John Milton John Milton was born in London in 1608 at the height of the Protestant Reformation in England. His father was a law writer who had achieved some success by the time Milton was born. This prosperity afforded Milton an excellent education, first with private tutoring, then a private school, and finally Cambridge. Milton, a studious boy, excelled in languages and classical studies. His father had left Roman Catholicism and Milton was raised Protestant, with a heavy tendency toward Puritanism. As a student, he wanted to go into the ministry, but was disillusioned with the scholastic elements of the clergy at Cambridge. Cambridge, however, afforded him time to write poetry. After Cambridge, he continued his studies for seven years in a leisurely life at his father's house. It was here that he wrote some of his first published poems, including "Comus" (1634) and "Lycidas" (1638), both of which he published in 1645. Milton toured the European continent in 1638-1639 and met many of the great Renaissance minds, including Galileo and Grotius. The beginning of the Puritan Revolution found Milton back in England, fighting for a more humanist and reformed church. For more than twenty years, Milton set aside poetry to write political and religious pamphlets for the cause of Puritanism. For a time, he served as Secretary for Foreign Tongues under Cromwell.

6. Carol Peters: John Milton John Milton. from John Milton s Paradise Lost Book 7 . . . and in his hand He took the golden Compasses, prepar d In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe http://carolpeters.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-milton.html

Carol Peters Monday, October 22, 2007 John Milton [from John Milton's Paradise Lost Book 7] . . . and in his hand He took the golden Compasses, prepar'd In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe This Universe, and all created things: One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profunditie obscure, And said, thus farr extend, thus farr thy bounds, This be thy just Circumference, O World. Posted by Carol Peters at 9:54 AM Labels: poet (dead) comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Carol Peters Charleston, SC and Hakalau, HI, United States My chapbook, Muddy Prints, Water Shine , will be published in the New Women's Voices Series by Finishing Line Press . My work appears in Letters to the World International Poetry Review miPOradio Pembroke ... Ink Pot , and inkburns . I read for The Gettysburg Review View my complete profile poems poet (dead) ... writer (live) pigboy pig Presence Anne Haines Bamboo Ridge Beverly A. Jackson Cherryl Floyd-Miller ... Verse Daily Blog Archive January Robert Duncan Charles Olson Gertrude Stein ... August

7. John Milton --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on John Milton English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108731/John-Milton

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8. John Milton - Wikiquote The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume II, Book III. (1847) .. Wikisource has original works written by or about John Milton. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Milton

John Milton From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton ) was an English poet and politician, most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost Contents See also Sourced On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) L'Allegro (1631) ... edit See also Areopagitica Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes ... edit Sourced What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pil¨d stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? On Shakespeare How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year. On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If ever deed of honour did thee please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. Sonnet VIII: When the Assault was Intended to the City Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

9. John Milton Quotes And Biography. John Milton Quotations. Read John Milton quotes, biography or a speech. QuoteDB offers a large collection of John Milton quotations, ratings and a picture. http://www.quotedb.com/authors/john-milton

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Fiction Paradise Lost Poetry An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare At a Solemn Music Il Penseroso L'Allegro ... Read Print John Milton Search within all works by John Milton To read literature by John Milton, select from the list on the left. John Milton (1608-1674) was born in London. His mother Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father, also named John, had risen to prosperity as a scrivener or law writer - he also composed music. The family was wealthy enough to afford a second house in the country. Milton's first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University. At the age of twelve Milton was admitted to St Paul's School near his home and five years later he entered Christ's College, Cambridge. During this period, while considering himself destined for the ministry, he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English. One of Milton'e earliest works, 'On the Death of a Fair Infant' (1626), was written after his sister Anne Phillips has suffered from a miscarriage. Milton did not adjust to university life. He was called, half in scorn, "The Lady of Christ's", and after starting a fist fight with his tutor, he was expelled for a term. On leaving Cambridge Milton had given up his original plan to become a priest. He adopted no profession but spent six years at leisure in his father's home, writing during that time L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO (1632), COMUS (1634), and LYCIDAS (1637), written after the death of his friend Edward King. In 1635 the Miltons moved to Horton, Buckinghamshire, where John pursued his studies in Greek, Latin, and Italian. He traveled in France and Italy in the late 1630s, meeting in Paris the jurist and theologian Hugo Grotius and the astronomer Galileo Galilei in Florence - there are references to Galileo's telescope in

11. John Milton Biography And Summary John Milton biography with 626 pages of profile on John Milton sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/John_Milton

Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Amazon.com John Milton Summary Order the John Milton Summary Pack View 21 John Milton Critical Essays John Milton About 626 pages (187,924 words) in 27 products "John Milton" Search Results Contents: Biographies Works by Author Summaries Reference Criticism Biography Name: John Milton Birth Date: December 9, 1608 Death Date: November 8, 1674 Place of Birth: London, England Place of Death: London, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: poet summary from source: Biography of John Milton 20,617 words, approx. 69 pages summary from source: Biography of John Milton 9,923 words, approx. 33 pages John Milton's claim to continued recollection rests primarily, of course, on his preeminence as a poet. In 1642 he said that he had been forced by a sense of political duty to interrupt his efforts to become "a Poet soaring in the high region of his... summary from source: Biography of John Milton 4,051 words, approx. 14 pages

12. Literary Encyclopedia: John Milton John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on 9 December 1608. His mother, Sarah, was the daughter of a merchanttailor; his father, also named John http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5163

13. John Milton John Milton was born in London, the son of a wealthy financial agent. He was educated at St. Paul s School and Christ s College, Cambridge, gaining his MA http://www.englishverse.com/poets/milton_john

John Milton John Milton was born in London, the son of a wealthy financial agent. He was educated at St. Paul's School and Christ's College, Cambridge, gaining his MA in 1632. He then continued to study classical and European literature from his parent's home in Buckinghamshire at the same time producing some of his early works such as Lycidas and Comus In the late 1630's he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth, employing Andrew Marvell as his assistant as his eyesight declined. After the restoration of Charles II his life was probably saved by his fame as a poet. He was thrice married, his first two wives dying after childbirth. Milton's poetry reflects his scholarly brilliance and classical style and his epic masterpieces, Paradise Lost Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were completed towards the end of his life. Lycidas On His Blindness L'Allegro To Mr. Lawrence ... A Life of John Milton A.N. Wilson Buy books related to John Milton at amazon.com

14. John Milton (1608-1674) A site dedicated to john milton, arguably the best 17th Century English author. Biography, Works, Essays, Study Resources. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/

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15. John Milton: The Milton-L Home Page john milton on the web, with links to etexts, audio, images, archives and more. http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/

Home What's New About Milton-L List Archives ... discussion group! Ninth International Milton Symposium more... The Milton Encyclopedia Yale University Press has commissioned Tom Corns ( University of Wales, Bangor ) as editor-in-chief of The Milton Encyclopedia, a project announced at the recent . The project web site is now available , with a detailed plan (publication is planned for 2005), a list of headwords, notes for contributors and a FAQ. Audio Readings of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso Gardner Campbell has posted recordings of L'Allegro (MP3) and Il Penseroso (MP3) on his web site Milton Society of America Join the Milton Society of America , an allied organization of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), which was founded in 1948. Information on the society, including the annual dinner, booklet, and membership fees is available. Thanks to Al Labriola for this information! Milton Assignments Thanks to Peter Herman for his list of Milton assignments (viewable in Adobe Acrobat).

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The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... John Milton John Milton Search all of John Milton Advanced Search John Milton (1608-1674) , English poet, famous for his Epic work Paradise Lost Milton was born in London on December 9, 1609 as the son of a wealthy notary. He was educated at St. Paul's School. Milton received a Masters degree from Cambridge University in 1632. In 1638, he undertook a European tour where he met many of the major thinkers of the day, especially in Italy. On his return to England, Milton became a Puritan, and an opponent of the Catholics and of the Stuarts. He was also an ardent polemicist, a follower of Cromwell, and the latter's foreign language secretary. In 1652 he became completely blind. His first wife died in 1652 and he remarried in 1656. After the restoration of the Stuarts he suffered considerable persecution. He withdrew from active participation in politics and concentrated on his poetry. Paradise Lost was published in 1667, followed by

18. Literature.org - The Online Literature Library john milton. Paradise Lost Paradise Regained. The Online Literature Library is sponsored by Knowledge Matters Ltd. Last updated Monday, 23May-2005 http://www.literature.org/authors/milton-john/

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19. John Milton Collection At Bartleby.com Many links to milton s poetry and prose, most of which are based on Harvard Classics editions. http://www.bartleby.com/people/Milton-J.html

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20. The Classic Text: John Milton It is not known exactly when john milton actually wrote his epic poem Paradise Lost, though many scholars guess that it was written in London around http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg117.htm

I t is not known exactly when John Milton actually wrote his epic poem Paradise Lost , though many scholars guess that it was written in London around 1650-1660. During this time Milton, a staunch anti-royalist, came under heavy attack and even was imprisoned for his support of an English Commonwealth. Having left London in the summer of 1665, the blind Milton sought refuge at Chalfont St. Giles. Two years later, following an outbreak of the plague as well as the Great Fire of 1666 in London, Milton published "the most noticed, most read, most criticized, and finally the most exalted Poem in the English Tongue." M ilton entered into a publishing agreement with printer Samuel Simmons on April 27, 1667. This agreement allowed for the publication and sale of a maximum of 4,500 copies (printed in three impressions of 1,500 each, the maximum number of copies permitted by English law per impression). Upon signing, Simmons paid Milton £5 and paid additional sums of £5 at the completion of each impression. T he first edition was a small quarto which sold for three shillings. The text seems to have been edited with great care, with revisions coming from Milton himself or a close associate. However, the publisher Simmons found sales of the poem to be somewhat sluggish because of the difficulty of the text and the lack of any annotations or textual apparatus. Therefore, Simmons suggested to Milton that he add an argument to each book explaining the plot to the reader in simple terms. The text layout was also changed from Milton's original ten books to twelve by dividing books VII and X into two books each. This imitated the conventional contemporary epic poetry style.

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