Milton, John (1608–1674), poet and polemicist

by Gordon Campbell

  • Education
  • Hammersmith and Horton, 1631–1638
  • Italy, 1638–1639
  • Schoolmaster and polemicist, 1639–1642
  • Marriage and prose tracts, 1642–1648
  • Poetry, 1641–1648
  • Public service and the three defences, 1649–1655
  • Poetry, 1652–1659
  • Prose, 1659–1660
  • The Restoration years, 1660–1674
  • Paradise Lost
  • Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
  • Prose, 1669–1674
  • Last days
  • Posthumous reputation

References

See also

Themes

  • ‘Faire Englands joy is fled’?: visual and performance arts in the 1650s

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives

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