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Biography of John Milton

English Poet (1608—1674)

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One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Milton's powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights.

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