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Biography: John Milton, poet (8 Nov 1674)
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"John Milton, poet
8 November 1674
John Milton was born in London in 1608 (seven and a half years
before the death of Shakespeare). His grandfather was a Roman
Catholic who had disowned Milton's father when the latter turned
Protestant. The boy was sent to St. Paul's school, perhaps when
twelve, perhaps earlier. From the beginning, Milton was an eager
student (he tells us that from the time he was twelve, he seldom
stopped reading before midnight), and he learned Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew, and began to try to write verse. In 1625 he enrolled at
Christ's College, Cambridge, clashed with his tutor the following
year and was suspended, returned and was given another tutor, and
graduated on schedule. The University in those days still undertook
to teach largely by rote memorization, and Milton thought his
training there of little value. He undertook to give himself a
liberal education by wide reading. His father had hoped to make a
lawyer of him, but took it very well when his son announced that he
intended to make the writing of poetry his life's work.
In 1629 (when he was 21 years old) he wrote a short poem, "On
the morning of Christ's Nativity," his first memorable work, still
widely read at Christmas.
A few years later, he wrote a masque (or mask), which was
presented in 1634, at Ludlow Castle, near the Welsh border, in honor
of the Earl of Bridgewater.
In August 1637, a classmate of Milton's, Edward King, who had
written some poetry himself, was drowned, and several of his friends
resolved to write poems in his memory and publish a collection of
them. Milton was asked to contribute. His poem was called Lycidas .
Between 1641 and 1660, Milton wrote almost no poetry. This was
the time when the English Puritans were setting out to overthrow the
English monarchy on the grounds that it was levying taxes unlawfully
(and was, moreover, in league with the wicked English Church), and
to overthrow the English Church on the grounds that, whil"
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