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An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare :
Poetry 2005-08-29 (6763 hits)

An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester :
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Another On The Same :
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Comus :
Poetry 2010-04-26 (9921 hits)

PARADISE LOST -- Book I :
Poetry 2005-08-29 (7620 hits)

PARADISE LOST -- Book II :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book III :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book IV :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book IX :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book V :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book VI :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book VII :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book VIII :
Poetry 2005-08-29 (6532 hits)

PARADISE LOST -- Book X :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book XII :
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PARADISE LOST --Book XI :
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent :
Poetry 2005-06-13 (8967 hits)

Biography John Milton

1608 - 1674
One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667). Milton's powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights.
John Milton was born in London. His mother Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father, also named John, had risen to prosperity as a scrivener or law writer - he also composed music. The family was wealthy enough to afford a second house in the country. Milton's first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University. At the age of twelve Milton was admitted to St Paul's School near his home and five years later he entered Christ's College, Cambridge. During this period, while considering himself destined for the ministry, he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English. One of Milton'e earliest works, 'On the Death of a Fair Infant' (1626), was written after his sister Anne Phillips has suffered from a miscarriage.
Paradise Lost is not easy to read with its odd syntax, difficult vocabulary, and complex, noble style. Moreover, its cosmic vision is not actually based on the Copernican system, but more in the traditional Christian cosmology of its day, where the Earth is the center, not the sun. The poem tells a biblical story of Adam and Eve, with God, and Lucifer (Satan), who is thrown out of Heaven to corrupt humankind. Satan, the most beautiful of the angels, is at his most impressive: he wakes up, on a burning lake in Hell, to find himself surrounded by his stunned followers. He has been defeated in the War of Heaven. "All is not lost; th' unconquerable Will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield... /" Milton created a powerful and sympathetic portrait of Lucifer. His character bears similarities with Shakespeare's hero-villains Iago and Macbeth, whose intellectual nihilism is transformed into metaphysical drama