(December 9, 1608\u2013November 8, 1674), was an English poet and political writer. His blank-verse epic, Paradise Lost,<\/i> 1667, considered a masterpiece of English literature, detailed Lucifer\u2019s revolt against God and the fall in the garden of Adam and Eve. Milton aggressively defended the Puritan cause, writing: Pro Populo Anglicano,<\/i> 1651; The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,<\/i> 1649; The Tetrachordon,<\/i> 1645; and The Reason of Church Government,<\/i> 1642, which declared that governments should exert no control over the local churches. <\/p>\n
In his middle forties, John Milton went blind, followed by his wife dying in childbirth. He continued creating by dictating his works to his daughters, including Paradise Lost,<\/i> 1667, and Paradise Regained,<\/i> 1671. He expressed:<\/p>\n
There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion; no orations equal to those of the prophets; and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.244<\/p>\n
In 1629, in the composition, On the Morning of Christ\u2019s Nativity,<\/i> John Milton wrote:<\/p>\n
This is the month, and this the happy morn,<\/p>\n
Wherein the Son of Heav\u2019n\u2019s eternal King,<\/p>\n
Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,<\/p>\n
Our great redemption from above did bring;<\/p>\n
For so the holy sages once did sing,<\/p>\n
That He our deadly forfeit should release,<\/p>\n
And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.245<\/p>\n
In Il Penseroso,<\/i> 1631, John Milton wrote:<\/p>\n
And storied windows richly dight,<\/p>\n
Casting a dim religious light,<\/p>\n
There let the pealing organ blow,<\/p>\n
To the full-voiced choir below,<\/p>\n
In service high, and anthems clear<\/p>\n
As may, with sweetness, through mine ear<\/p>\n
Dissolve me into ecstasies,<\/p>\n
And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.246<\/p>\n
In 1634, John Milton wrote in Comus<\/i>:<\/p>\n
That Power <\/p>\n
Which erring men call chance.247<\/p>\n
In Lycidas,<\/i> 1637, Milton composed:<\/p>\n
Last came, and last did go,<\/p>\n
The Pilot of the Galilean lake;<\/p>\n
Two massy keys he bore of metals twain,<\/p>\n
(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).248<\/p>\n
In his work, Animadversions upon the Reply of Smectymnuus,<\/i> 1642, John Milton wrote:<\/p>\n
Let us all go, every true protested Briton, throughout the three kingdoms, and render thanks, to God, the Father of light, and fountain of heavenly grace, and to His Son, Christ the Lord.249<\/p>\n
In Tractate of Education,<\/i> 1644, John Milton wrote:<\/p>\n
Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.250<\/p>\n
In Areopagitica,<\/i> 1644, considered the best of his prose works, John Milton wrote:<\/p>\n
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God\u2019s image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.251<\/p>\n
In On the Late Massacre in Piedmont,<\/i> 1655, John Milton wrote:<\/p>\n
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones<\/p>\n
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;<\/p>\n
Ev\u2019n them who kept thy truth so pure of old<\/p>\n
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones<\/p>\n
Forget not.252<\/p>\n
In True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration,<\/i> 1673, John Milton declared:<\/p>\n
No man or angel can know how God would be worshiped and served unless God reveal it: He hath revealed and taught it us in the Holy Scriptures by inspired ministers, and in the Gospel by His own Son, and His apostles, with strictest command to reject all other traditions or additions whatever.253<\/p>\n
In Paradise Lost,<\/i> written in 1667, John Milton coined the lines:<\/p>\n
A heaven on earth.254<\/p>\n
All hell broke loose.255<\/p>\n
So vivid were his depictions in Paradise Lost,<\/i> that it has become a classic which has endured the ages:<\/p>\n
Of Man\u2019s first disobedience, and the fruit<\/p>\n
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste<\/p>\n
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,<\/p>\n
With loss of Eden. \u2026 <\/p>\n
What in men is dark<\/p>\n
Illumine, what is low raise and support;<\/p>\n
That to the height of this great argument<\/p>\n
I may assert eternal Providence,<\/p>\n
And justify the ways of God to men. \u2026 <\/p>\n
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,<\/p>\n
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived<\/p>\n
The mother of mankind. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Him the Almighty Power<\/p>\n
Hurled headlong flaming from th\u2019 ethereal sky<\/p>\n
With hideous ruin and combustion down<\/p>\n
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell<\/p>\n
In adamantine chains and penal fire,<\/p>\n
Who durst defy th\u2019 Omnipotent to arms. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Thus Belial with words clothed in reason\u2019s garb<\/p>\n
Counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,<\/p>\n
Not peace.256<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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