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John Milton
1608–1674
Best known for Paradise Lost, this towering poet brought together grand imagination, political conviction, and some of the most memorable lines in English literature. His work still feels alive because it wrestles so boldly with freedom, faith, rebellion, and human choice.
14 Audiobooks
The Poetical Works of John Milton
by John Milton
Paradise Regained
by John Milton
Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
by John Milton
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Milton's Comus
by John Milton
Milton: Minor Poems
by John Milton
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
by John Milton
Le Paradis Perdu
by John Milton
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
El paraíso perdido
by John Milton
Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton
by John Milton
On the morning of Christ's nativity : an ode
by John Milton
About the author
Born in London in 1608, John Milton was educated at St Paul’s School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. He wrote poetry in English, Latin, and Italian, and from early on he aimed at literary greatness with unusual seriousness and range.
Milton lived through the upheavals of the English Civil Wars and became deeply involved in public life as a polemical writer and later a civil servant for the Commonwealth government. Alongside major prose works such as Areopagitica, his poetry grew in ambition, from early pieces like L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Comus to the works that secured his lasting fame.
After losing his sight, he created the masterpieces most readers remember him for: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. He died in 1674, but his writing has remained central to English literature for its musical language, intellectual force, and fearless engagement with moral and political questions.