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John Milton
1608–1674
Best known for Paradise Lost, this towering English poet wrote with uncommon moral seriousness, political passion, and musical force. His work ranges from epic poetry to fierce prose defending freedom of thought and the liberty of the press.
13 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
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Le Paradis Perdu
by John Milton
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
by John Milton
Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton
by John Milton
El paraíso perdido
by John Milton
On the morning of Christ's nativity : an ode
by John Milton
About the author
Born in London on December 9, 1608, John Milton was educated at St Paul’s School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. He became one of the great writers of the English language, admired for the scale and ambition of his poetry as well as the force of his ideas.
Milton lived through the political and religious upheavals of 17th-century England, and his writing was deeply shaped by that turmoil. Alongside poems such as Lycidas, he wrote influential prose works including Areopagitica, his famous argument against censorship and in favor of free expression.
His masterpiece, Paradise Lost, appeared in 1667, after he had gone blind, and was followed by Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in 1671. Milton died in London on November 8, 1674, but his poems and prose have continued to shape literature, politics, and debates about liberty ever since.