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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
John Milton at age 10 by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen. John Milton wrote poetry during the English Renaissance. He was born on 9 December 1608 to John and Sara Milton. Only three of their children survived infancy. Anne was the oldest, John was the middle child, and Christopher was the youngest.
John Milton and the English Revolution: A Study in the Sociology of Literature. London: Macmillan, 1981. Milton, John. Complete Prose Works of John Milton Vol III Ed. Don Wolfe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. Raymond, Joad. "The Literature of Controversy" in A Companion to Milton. Ed. Thomas Corns. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003 ...
The Blind Milton (Thomas Uwins, c. 1817) "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" (also known as "On His Blindness") is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (1608–1674). The last three lines are particularly well known; they conclude with "They also serve who only stand and wait", which is much quoted though rarely in context.
The poetic style of John Milton, also known as Miltonic verse, Miltonic epic, or Miltonic blank verse, was a highly influential poetic structure popularized by Milton. Although Milton wrote earlier poetry, his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes .
Reesing, John "The Materiality of God in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana" The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul. 1957), pp. 159–173 Schwartz, Regina M. "Citation, Authority, and De Doctrina Christiana ", in Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose ed. David Loewenstein and James Turner.
Milton believed in the idea of soul sleeping or mortalism, which determines that the soul, upon death, is in a sleeplike state until the Last Judgment. [8] Similarly, he believed that Christ, when incarnated, merged his divine and human identities, and that both of these identities died during his Crucifixion. [ 9 ]
The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton. New York: The Modern Library, 2007. Lewalski, Barbara K. The Life of John Milton. Oxford: Blackwells Publishers, 2003. Miller, Leo. John Milton among the Polygamophiles. New York: Loewenthal Press, 1974. Milton, John. Complete Prose Works of John Milton Vol IV Ed. Don Wolfe.