John Milton

John Milton was born in 1608, the son of a London notary who had been disinherited for leaving Catholicism. After Cambridge, he spent six years studying alone at his father's house, then travelled to Italy. He then put his pen at the service of the Revolution: pamphlets on divorce and on the freedom of the press, a justification of regicide, and the post of Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Council of State. Having gone blind around 1652, he dictated the rest of his work. He died in 1674.

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• PoetryParadise LostJohn Milton · 1667LiteraturePublic domain