| First Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Milton
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| Full Name at Birth |
John Milton
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| Alternative Name |
The Lady of Christ's College
[nickname]
|
| Birthday |
9th December, 1608
|
| Birthplace |
Bread Street, Cheapside, London
|
| Died |
8th November, 1674
|
| Place of Death |
Bunhill, London, England
|
| Cause of Death |
Renal failure
|
| Buried |
St Giles-without-Cripplegate
|
| Build |
Average
|
| Eye Color |
Brown - Dark
|
| Hair Color |
Brown - Dark
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| Distinctive Feature |
His complexion was exceedingly fair..., Completely blind at age 44..., Multilingualist...
|
| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Sexuality |
Straight
|
| Religion |
Protestant
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
British
|
| High School |
[161?-161?] Private Tutorship by Thomas Young (A Scottish Presbyterian with an M.A. from the University of St. Andrews), [1620-1625] St Paul's School in London, England
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| University |
[1625-29]
Christ's College, Cambridge
(BA Honours degree), [1629-32]
Christ's College, Cambridge
(MA degree), [1635-41]
six years of self-directed private study, in Horton, Berkshire
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| Occupation Text |
Poet, Prose Polemicist, Man Of Letters, Civil Servant, Schoolmaster, Pamphleteer, Historian
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| Occupation |
Poet
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| Claim to Fame |
Epic poem 'Paradise Lost' (1667)
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| Music Genre (Text) |
English Civil War & Parliamentarianism, Poetry & Prose & Blank Verse, Religious Radicalism & Puritanism, Civil Service, Polemics, Freedom of speech & Liberty, Republicanism, Philosophy, Theology, Politics, Teaching, History, Pamphleteering
|
| Year(s) Active |
1649 > 1660 (Secretary for Foreign Tongues: for the Council of State), 1629 > 1673 (writer: Poetry and Drama), 1641 > 1674 (writer: Prose), 1638 > 1639 (traveller: 'The Grand Tour' of France, Italy, Venice, The Vatican & Switzerland), 1639 > ???? (schoolmaster: at a London school), 164? > ???? (translator: for the Republican Government, translating English documents into Latin), 1652 > death (disability: became totally blind aged 44), 1667 > 1667 (writer: 'Paradise Lost' was first printed), 1671 > 1671 (writer: 'Paradise Regained' was first published)
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| Pets |
Charles Diodati
(a friend from St Paul's)
|
| Favorite People |
Andrew Marvell (colleague), Cardinal Francesco Barberini (the Vatican), Charles Diodati (a friend from St Paul's), Edward King (Cambridge friend), Edward King (Cambridge friend), Galileo Galilei (met in Florence), Georg Rudolph Wecklein ((colleague), Giovanni Battista Manso, Giovanni Salzilli, Henry Holden (theologian), Hugo Grotius (Dutch intellectual), Lukas Holste (a Vatican librarian), Mary Powell (16 year old wife), Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector), Patrick Cary (poet), Philip Meadows (colleague), Roger Williams (theologian friend), Samuel Hartlib (educational reformer), Thomas Hobson
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| Favorite Books |
The Bible
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| Favorite Places |
Horton, Berkshire, England, Genoa, Italy, Nice, France, Livorno, Italy, Pisa, Italy, Florence, Italy, Rome, Italy, Naples, Italy, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Geneva, Switzerland, The Vatican, Venice Republic
|
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse, and widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.
