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Milton, John
Milton, John (1608–74) English poet. Milton first major pieces are the masque
Comus (1634), and the pastoral elergy
Lycidas (1637). He was committed to reform of the Church of England, and his pamphlet
Of Reformation in England (1641) attacked episcopacy. A champion of the revolutionary forces in the English
Civil War (1642–51), his
Areopagitica (1644) is a classic argument for freedom of the press. Milton's defence of regicides in
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) earned him a position in
Cromwell's Commonwealth government. Blind from 1652, Milton was forced into hiding after the
Restoration (1660).
Paradise Lost, perhaps the greatest epic poem in English, was first published in 10 books (1667). In 1674, he produced a revised edition in 12 books. Written in blank-verse, it relates the theological stories of Satan's rebellion against God, and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Its sequel,
Paradise Regained (1671), was published in four books, and describes Christ's temptation.
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Milton Academy Class of 2005
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 6/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Wellesley; Brittany Delany, Milton; David Dennis, Boston; John Dennison, Providence, R...Milton; Claire Lewis, Milton. Jordan Lewis, Marblehead; Yi Li, Forest Hills, NY; John Lingos- Webb, Milton; David Liu, North Andover...
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Milton national saviour
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 4/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Blake's illustrations to his poem `Milton' in the recent Blake show at Tate...little read today, in Blake's time John Milton was recognised as England's greatest...as a secular national saviour. Milton was subjected in the 1920s and 1930s...
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Milton in America.
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Reviewed by MORRIS FREEDMAN John Milton's place in the pantheon of world literature has not been firm or unassailable. John Dryden, his younger contemporary, took Milton much at his own evaluation, as belonging...
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Milton's "sage and serious Poet Spencer": error and imitation in The Faerie Queene and Areopagitica.(John Milton, Edmund Spencer)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...clashes with most readings of Spenser's poem, and John Guillory has noted the unusual complexity of critical debate surrounding Milton's words (Guillory, "Milton, John," 474). Probably more than anyone else, Harold...
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Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation.(Review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation. By John P. Rumrich. Cambridge...1996. xv + 186 pages. In Milton Unbound, John Rumrich argues that underlying the apparent diversity of Milton criticism is a single paradigm...
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Milton, marriage, and a woman's right to divorce.(John Milton)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Milton's reliance on John Selden's Uxor Hebraica [Jewish Wife...been increasingly argued by a number of Milton's critics since Eivion Owen's pioneering...Christian Doctrine (DDC) is in fact John Milton, a question that had been opened by...
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Milton and Midrash.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...seventeenth-century English poet John Milton is often identified as a central...found an antecedent in an antinomian Milton constructed out of a very particular...continuing presence of an Hebraic ethos in Milton's work. Ezra Pound's censure...
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Milton vs. the Indians / In Ackroyd's fantasy, the blind poet's puritanism is tested in the New World.(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 3/30/1997; ; 700+ words
; MILTON IN AMERICA By Peter Ackroyd Doubleday; 307 pages...in the ways of the world. This man is the aging poet John Milton, who in reality never visited these shores. "Milton in America" is a New World adventure story, and a parable...
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Milton and Republicanism.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...collection are parts 3 and 4, "Milton and the Republican Experience" and "Milton and the Republican Tradition...Republicanism in the 1650s: John Streater's 'Heroick Mechanicks,'" and Blair Worden's "Milton and Marchamont Nedham" emphasize...
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Milton and the Terms of Liberty.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...comes Quentin Skinner: 'John Milton and the Politics of Slavery...into hindsightedness? John Creaser, in 'Prosody and Liberty in Milton and Marvell', ponders...an 'International' Milton Symposium. JOHN K. HALE UNIVERSITY OF...
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Milton, DeLisha 1974–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
DeLisha Milton 1974 – Professional basketball...ranks and ultimately to the pros, DeLisha Milton has created a marriage of sweetness...extreme focus and dedication to the sport, Milton has proven success on every level of the...
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Milton, John
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Milton Born: December 9, 1608 London, England...English poet and essayist The English poet John Milton was a champion of liberty. As a Protestant...publication. Background and education John Milton was born on December 9, 1608, in London...
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John Milton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Milton 1608-74, English poet, b. London...and Works The son of a wealthy scrivener, Milton was educated at St. Paul's School and Christ's College, Cambridge. While Milton was at Cambridge he wrote poetry in both...
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Milton, John (1608–1674)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
MILTON, JOHN (1608 – 1674) MILTON, JOHN (1608 – 1674), English poet. England's epic poet and champion of civil and religious liberties was born in London on 9 December 1608, entered Christ's College, Cambridge...
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Milton, John (1608–1674)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Milton, John (1608 – 1674) Essayist and poet whose Paradise...purity and temptation, and was a precursor to subjects Milton would take up in his most famous work. Milton lived on his family's country estate after leaving Cambridge...
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