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Life Political Stand Works Quotes John Milton was born on December 9, 1608 on Bread Street in Cheapside, London, England. Miltons parents had six children, and Milton was one of the three who survived. And at age 16 Milton entered Christs College, Cambridge. Perhaps the finest student in his class, Milton received his B.A. in 1629 and M.A. in 1632. Milton was proficient in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and Hebrew(希伯来语), and was an excellent swordsman. Milton had gone to Cambridge to become a clergyman（牧师教士）, but he was dissuaded from this occupation due to “tyranny”（专横） in the church. So, Milton spent the 6 years after getting his M.A. reading the Greek and Latin classics, and studying mathematics and music. In 1642, Milton married Mary Powell. Sadly, his wife ran away before the year was through, and Milton proceeded to write his famous treatise advocating divorce. He and his wife reconciled（和解） in 1645, and Miltons daughter Anne was born in 1646. In 1649 he worked as a secretary for the government starting. In 1652 he became blind. That year his only son and wife died, leaving him a blind widower with three children. He remarried in 1656, but she died in childbirth a year later, ending the happiest time in Miltons life. Milton got a third wife in 1663, since his rebellious daughters would not care for him. In 1667, Milton finally concluded an agreement with a publisher for the printing of Paradise Lost. On the day before his 66th birthday, November 8, 1674, Milton died of gout-fever（痛风）. He was buried in the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, beside his father. Political Stand The mid seventeenth-century was a time of great social and cultural turmoil（混乱、骚动）. A series of political and military conflicts, now known as the English Civil War or the English Revolution, was waged intermittently（间歇的） between?Parliamentarians（国会议员） and Royalists from 1642 to 1651. Main Works Paradise Lost 《失乐园》 Paradise Lost is indeed the only genera