Mar 21, 2025 · John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. He is best known for Paradise Lost, …

Apr 2, 2014 · John Milton is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. Together with Paradise Regained, it formed his reputation as one of the …

John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, then at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he began to write …

Nov 10, 2019 · He’s rightly celebrated for writing the definitive English epic in his long narrative poem Paradise Lost, but John Milton wrote a great deal more besides. Below, we pick, and …

The English poet John Milton was a champion of liberty. As a Protestant, he believed that the individual reader should interpret the Bible. He is chiefly famous for his epic (a long poem …

Sep 11, 2022 · John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and historian, produced many notable works that had profound influence on not just the English writers but also the English language …

John Milton was born on December 9, 1608, in London, as the second child of John and Sara (neé Jeffrey). The family lived on Bread Street in Cheapside, near St. Paul's Cathedral.

John Milton, (born Dec. 9, 1608, London, Eng.—died Nov. 8?, 1674, London?), English poet and pamphleteer. Milton attended the University of Cambridge (1625–32), where he wrote poems …

John Milton was a renowned 17th-century English poet, polemicist, and civil servant, best known for his epic poem “Paradise Lost.” Despite going blind in his forties, Milton continued to write …

Nov 18, 2021 · John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. He served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of …