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John Milton约翰·米尔顿(1608—1674 ) His family John Milton was the second son of Milton’s family, his father John Milton Sr. worked as scrivener(公证人). Miltons father was also a composer of church music, and Milton himself experienced a lifelong delight in music. John Milton had three marriages. His first wife Mary was only 17years old when got married with 37years Milton. And she gave 4 children for Milton and one of them died at a young age. His second wife died of mogitocia (难产)，Milton got along with his third wife Elizabeth well. Introduction to John Milton ● Milton is one of the very few truly great English writers who is also a prominent figure in politics, and who is both a great poet and an important prose writer. The two most essential things to be remembered about him are his Puritanism and his republicanism. ● Milton wrote many different types of poetry. He is especially a great master of blank verse. He learned much from Shakespeare and first used blank verse in non-dramatic works. ● Milton is a great stylist. He is famous for his grand style noted for its dignity and polish, which is the result of his life-long classical and biblical study. ● Milton has always been admired for his sublimity of thought and majesty of expression. ● In his life, Milton shows himself a real revolutionary, a master poet and a great prose writer. He fought for freedom in all aspects as a Christian humanist, while his achievements in literature make him tower over all the other English writers of his time and exert a great influence over later ones. Paradise Lost （1666, 1667） Paradise Lost, the greatest poem by Milton, is a long narrative epic divided into 12 books. The stories of the poem were drawn from the “Genesis” of the Bible and from various elaborators of the Bible. Paradise Regained（1671） The companion epic of Paradise Lost, Paradise regained is a four-book “brief epic” composed also in blank verse. Based loosely on the Gos