John Milton
1608 – 1674 English poet
The poet of Paradise Lost, the great English epic.
- Religion
- A Puritan Protestant with private heterodox views; his manuscript theology rejected the Trinity and leaned toward Arianism.
- Affiliations
- Served the Puritan Commonwealth as a state official. No secret society.
Milton wrote Paradise Lost, the epic retelling of the fall of man, in blank verse of enormous power. A committed republican, he defended the execution of Charles I and free expression in Areopagitica. He composed his masterpiece while blind, dictating it to helpers.
In the timeline
- 1644 Milton's Areopagitica argues against censorship mentioned