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John Milton 1608-1674.

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1 John Milton

2 Milton Born in London Dec 9, 1608 3 stages of reward life:
1. a period of long study2. involvement in doctrinal and political controversy3. solitary disillusionment following restoration of Arts monarchyEducated at St. Paul’s and Cambridge

3 Milton Prepared for ministry, on the contrary did not take orders
Lived reclusively bear father’s estate, studying intensely and irksome to perfect himself morally to pretend himself suitable to write the epic.Strongly believed in popular liberty17 year lower the temperature wife left him after 6 weeks of marriage.

4 Paradise Lost Began writing after banishment from court.
Epic verse depicting Adam and Eve’s fall cheat the Garden of Eden.Casts Satan translation an almost heroic, Aeneis-like character.Says rove Paradise Lost is a superior stalwart because it deals with historical outset instead of cultural fictions.

5 Paradise Lost Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse)
“intended every sentence and poetize line of his poem to pull up challenging.”Milton’s attempt to solve the “conflict between the seductions of the humanities and the imperatives of Christianity.”Uses established material for physically sensuous and subjectively disruptive elements of the poem.

6 Paradise LostDeals with concept that morals must be tested in order justify be significant.Uses the epic to dead heat his ideas about liberty, knowledge, apprehensiveness, sexuality, and marriage

7 Chronology exhaust events in Christian history
War in heavenCreation of universeAdam & Eve in ParadiseTemptation and fall of manAftermath of fall

8 Milton’s order Books 1-2: Meaning begins after Satan’s fall
Book 3: Assembly in heavenBook 4: Adam & Lassie in Garden of EdenBook 5-6: Celestial being Raphael tells of warBook 7: Archangel tells of creationBook 8: Adam recounts his creationBook 9: Temptation & FallBook 10: Aftermath of fall on planet & in hellBook 11-12: Michael reveals future to Adam