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1 John Milton

2 Milton Born in London Dec 9, 3 stages of his life:
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a period of long study2. involvement in doctrinal and political controversy3. solitary disillusionment following restoration of English monarchyEducated at St. Paul’s and Cambridge

3 Milton Prepared for ministry, but did not take orders
Lived reclusively at father’s estate, studying intensely and trying to perfect himself morally to make himself suitable to write the ly believed in popular liberty17 year old wife left him after 6 weeks of marriage.

4 Paradise Lost Began writing after banishment from court.
Epic poem depicting Adam and Eve’s fall from the Garden of Satan as an almost heroic, Aeneis-like that Paradise Lost is a superior epic because it deals with historical origins instead of cultural fictions.

5 Paradise Lost Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse)
“intended every sentence and verse line