John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden.
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Trending topics shown first"By labor and intent study , joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die."
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."
"By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a cl…"
"The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him."
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