Today’s Writer-John Milton
John Milton (1608–1674)
He was considered the most significant English writer after
William Shakespeare. His epic Paradise Lost, classical tragedy Samson Agonistes,
and pastoral elegy Lycidas are widely regarded as the greatest poems of their
kind in English.
He made
an important contribution to the idea of free speech and free press in a
pamphlet, Areopagitica (1644), which he wrote and published in response to a
restrictive printing ordinance established by Parliament in 1643. By 1652, Milton had
become totally blind. His blindness forced him to dictate his verse and prose. Milton died on 8 November 1674.
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