Milton, John

A seventeenth-century English poet. His greatest work is the epic Paradise Lost, which he dictated after he went blind. With Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare , Milton is considered one of the greatest of all English poets. A famous phrase from Milton's works is his statement of purpose in Paradise Lost: “ to justify the ways of God to men .” Also well known is the last line of his poem “On His Blindness”: “ They also serve who only stand and wait .”

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Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Francis Bacon, and John Milton all kept them, to name a few.

John Milton Cooper Jr. on the striking parallels between the two laureates.

John Milton Cooper, Jr., is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.

John Milton was a noble poet, but he was not a safe guide in matters pertaining to animal husbandry.

When they told me the price he was paying, my wrath against John Milton boiled over.

He was in his own mundane way as determined to be a poet, and the best going, as John Milton himself.

There are no authors in the literature more distinctly revealed in their writings than is John Milton.

Here are found two tunes credited to John Milton, but I think there is no doubt they were merely harmonized by him.

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