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A Short Biography of John Milton

Author Name:

John Milton

Born As:

John Milton

Other Names:

Born:

9 Dec 1608

Died:

8 Nov 1674




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Poet and Essayist                          
Selected Works:

Poetic and Dramatic Works:

L'Allegro - 1631
Il Penseroso - 1633
Comus - a masque- 1634
Lycidas - 1638
Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin - 1645
Paradise Lost - 1667
Paradise Regained - 1671
Samson Agonistes - 1671
Poems, &c, Upon Several Occasions - 1673

Political, Philosophical and Religious Prose:

Of Reformation - 1641
Of Prelatical Episcopacy - 1641
Animadversions - 1641
The Reason of Church Government - 1642
Apology for Smectymnuus - 1642
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce - 1643
Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce - 1644
Of Education - 1644
Areopagitica - 1644
Tetrachordon - 1645
Colasterion - 1645
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates - 1649
Eikonoklastes - 1649
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano - First Defense - 1651
Defensio Secunda  Second Defense - 1654
A treatise of Civil Power - 1659
The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church - 1659
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth - 1660
Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon - 1660
Accedence Commenced Grammar - 1669
History of Britain - 1670
Artis logicae plenior institutio - Art of Logic - 1672
Of True Religion - 1673
Epistolae Familiaries - 1674
Prolusiones - 1674

A brief History of Moscovia, and other less known Countries lying Eastward of Russia as far as Cathay, gathered from the writings of several Eye-witnesses - 1682
De doctrina christiana - 1823.                          
Mother Sarah Jeffrey
Father John Milton
Wife  Mary Powell, married in 1642, age 16. Left John Milton a month later and returned to her family.