2. Biography: • Born: • December 9, 1608 • Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England • Died: • November 8, 1674 (aged 65) • Bunhill, London, England • Occupation: • Poet, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant for the English Commonwealth • Influences: • Dante Alighieri, Ludovico Ariosto, The Bible, Homer, Ovid, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Virgil • Influenced: • William Blake, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth
3. • The family's financial prosperity afforded Milton to be taught classical languages, first by private tutors at home, followed by entrance to St. Paul's School at age twelve, in 1620 • Milton's father was also a composer of church music, and Milton himself experienced a lifelong delight in music. • In 1625, Milton was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge.
4. Cambridge years John Milton matriculated Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1625 • in preparation for becoming an Anglican priest, stayed on to obtain his Master of Arts degree on 3 July 1632 • due to his hair, which he wore long, and •
John milton
1. JOHN MILTON Life and Works
2. JOHN MILTON 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.
3. EARLY LIFE John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Paul's School, then at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English, and prepared to enter the clergy. His extensive reading included both classical and modern works of religion, science, philosophy, history, politics, and literature. In addition, Milton was proficient in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Italian, and obtained a familiarity with Old English and Dutch as well.
4. In May of 1638, Milton •
John milton
1. John Milton John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Paul's School, then at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English, and prepared to enter the clergy. After university, however, he abandoned his plans to join the priesthood and spent the next six years in his father's country home in Buckinghamshire following a rigorous course of independent study to prepare for a career as a poet. His extensive reading included both classical and modern works of religion, science, philosophy, history, politics, and literature. In addition, Milton was proficient in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Italian, and obtained a familiarity with Old English and Dutch as well. During his period of private study, Milton composed a number of poems, including "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "On Shakespeare," "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," and the pastoral elegy "Lycidas." In May of 1638, Milto