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Author photo. Detail from "Milton Dictates Paradise Lost to his Daughters" by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix, c.1826.

Detail from "Milton Dictates Paradise Lost to his Daughters" by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix, c.1826.

John Milton (1) [1608–1674]

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Date of birth
1608-12-09
Date of death
1674-11-08
Burial location
St. Giles' Church without Cripplegate, London, England
Gender
male
Nationality
England
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Birthplace
Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England
Place of death
Bunhill, London, England
Places of residence
London, England
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Education
Christ's College, Cambridge University
St Paul's School, London, England
Occupations
poet
man of letters
civil servant
Relationships
Milton, John (father)
Organizations
Commonwealth of England
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John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England 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.

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