![]() In that time, he wrote “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,” “On Shakespeare,” “L’Allegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and "Lycidas," an elegy in memory of a friend who drowned. Poetry, Politics, and Personal LifeĪfter Cambridge, Milton spent six years living with his family in Buckinghamshire and studying independently. He attended Christ’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1629 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and 1632 with a Master of Arts. ![]() Paul’s School, and in his lifetime he learned Latin, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, French, and Spanish. He had an older sister Anne, and a younger brother Christopher, and several siblings who died before reaching adulthood. John Milton was born in London on Decemto John and Sara Milton. His influence extended through the English civil wars and also to the American and French revolutions. In his prose works he advocated the abolition of the Church of England. Together with Paradise Regained, it formed his reputation as one of the greatest English writers. John Milton is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. ![]()
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