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1608–1674 England
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
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And every shepherd tells his tale
L'Allegro (1631)
For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Samson Agonistes (1671)
Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul.
And out of good still to find means of evil.
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654)
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
On Shakespeare (1630)
For men to tell how human life began
The star that bids the shepherd fold,
Comus (1637)
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
At whose sight all the stars
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Lycidas (1637)
She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Lycidas (1637)
Truth...never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
Freely we serve,
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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