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Paradise Regained treats the rejection by Jesus of Satan’s temptations.A revised, 12-volume version of Paradise Lost was published in 1674.Paradise Lost, the greatest epic published in 1667, is inspired by the Bible story of the Creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, the rebellion of Satan against God, and Satan being cast out from heaven.It is commonly referred to as “On his blindness”.

When I Consider How My Light is Spent (1652).

Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (1645).

It is a pastoral elegy on Edward King who was dead in Irish Sea.

However, he was included in a general pardon.

Milton was harassed and imprisoned and several of his books were burned.

When Charles II, son of the executed Charles I, regained the throne in 1660, Milton was in danger for supporting the overthrow of the monarchy.

He wrote official publications for Cromwell’s government.

He wrote pamphlets on radical topics like freedom of the press, supported Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War, and was probably present at the beheading of Charles I.

In 1638, John Milton went to Europe, where he probably met the astronomer Galileo, who was under house arrest at the time.

John acted as a secretary, and Edward was Milton’s first biographer.

Nephews Edward and John Phillips (sons of Milton’s sister Anne) were educated by Milton and became writers themselves.

He married for a third time on 24 February 1662 to Elizabeth Minshull.

On 12 November 1656, he was married to Katherine Woodcock.

He married three times and his first wife Mary Powell (1625–1652) had four children.

John Milton was appointed as Latin Secretary to Oliver Cromwell in 1649.

He was a Puritan who believed in the authority of the Bible, and opposed religious institutions like the Church of England.

He was called as “Lady of the Light”,“Lady of Christs” and “Milton the Divorcer”.

He studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge graduating in 1629 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and 1632 with a Master of Arts.

He attended St Paul’s School in London.

He knew the languages English, Latin, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Aramaic and Syriac.

He was poet, prose polemicist, civil servant.

John Milton was born in Bread Street, London on 9 December 1608, the son of composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey.William Blake’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) William Collins’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) Thomas Gray’s Poems (Peacock’s English Verse – Vol-III) Slip Test, Unit Test, Revision Test, Model Test.To Milton there remains a higher theme (argument) sufficient in itself to raise to its true level that (debased) name of heroic, unless what he elsewhere calls "answerable style" should fail him through the advanced age and decrepitude of the whole world (an age too late) a recurrent fear in Milton's day or the cold northern climate, so unlike that of the Mediterranean cradle of culture, where, as Milton said, the sun "ripens wits as well as fruits" or, finally his own advancing years: all of which might well frustrate his intended flight if indeed he relied solely on himself, and not, as he does, on the Heavenly Muse.AKSHIRAA COACHING CENTRE PG TRB EXAM (English only) for the post of Post Graduate Assistants SALIENT FEATURES Then, mingling epic and romance in a common condemnation he specifies epic games (like those attending the obsequies of Patroclus in the Iliad and Anchises in the Aeneid) and the description of the equipment (furniture) of the knights armed for tournaments, their shields emblazon'd with odd or ingenious devices ( Impreses quaint) or of the steeds and their trappings, the long cloths thrown over them ( Bases), often of material interwoven with gold or silver thread ( tinsel) or, finally, of the ceremonious feast served in the castle hall, with due attendance of household officers, sewer (chief server) and seneschal (steward of the household) all this dwelling on the skill and artifice of menials, not on anything that can be justly called heroic in person or poem. 27] Though he has actually, in Books V and VI, supposed the element of martial prowess expected of the epic, Milton protests that he is averse to such matter, hitherto deemed the only fit subject for epic and romance, which deal at tedious length with the ruin wrought by fabulous warriors in fictitious battles, neglecting the while the true heroism of saints and martyrs.