John Milton

BioGraphy It was an English poet and essayist who was known for 

his epic poems that made ​​among which the most des tacado was his

epic called "Paradise Lost." This poet was born on December 9, 1608

in London and she was found dead on 8 November 1674. He was also

 one of the most important figures among those who were recruited to

the English Civil War.

Politically John Milton was one of the most important figures in English literature in its early years was the second son of John and Sarah Milton, his father besides being a poet, composed musics ecclesiastical and also had several ties to the theater is especially to "Blackfriars Theatre".

His early studies were when he had started learning classical languages ​​at the hands of several tutors, including especially Thomas Young.el which had been one of his tutors in London, which appeared at various times in his life

In 1632, he graduated cum laude and returned to London, where he spent five years in intensive study and literary composition at his home in Hammersmith. At this time wrote several poems, like On Shakespeare, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.

Once the Commonwealth after the parliamentary victory, Cromwell's government minister Milton makes foreign languages ​​(March 1649) and the family moved to Westminster, where his first born son, John. In subsequent years Milton would be responsible for translating into Latin the official record and respond to literary attacks against the republic, also serve as a censor and is likely to also drafted speeches for Cromwell.

The first poetic works are composed by Milton L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1631), two pastoral, reflecting the enjoyment of a day in the field from two different perspectives: L'Allegro (The joyful) invokes the joy of pure fun, while Il Penseroso (the thoughtful), reflects a more melancholy fun, focused on inner contemplation. This representation of opposites would be then taken up by poets like William Blake, in works such as Songs of Innocence and of Experience, or The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

He had several works which are the following:
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (The morning of the birth of Christ) (1629)
On Shakespeare (1630)
L'Allegro (1631)
Il Penseroso (1631)
Time (1632)
A solemn music (1633)
Arcades (1634)Comus (1634)
Lycidas (1637)
Reforms of the discipline of the Church in England (1641)
The reason for the government of the Church (1641-1642)
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)                              
Samson Agonistes (1671)
Areopagitica (1644)
On Education (1644)
The exercise of the judiciary and the reign (1649)
Eikonoklastes (1649)
On his blindness (1655)
Over his dead wife (1658)
Treaty of civil power in ecclesiastical causes (1659)
Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost) (completed in 1667)
Paradise Regained (Paradise Regained) (1671)

Finally Milton died of kidney failure in November at the date of 1674, and is buried in the church of St. Giles Cripplegate in, until now it says that there is a monument in his honor at the corner of the poets of the Abbey of Westmin and who had been one of the most important English poets. 

Finally Milton died of kidney failure in November at the date of 1674, and is buried in the church of St. Giles Cripplegate in, until now it says that there is a monument in his honor at the corner of the poets of the Abbey of Westmin and who had been one of the most important English poets.