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John Milton III. John Milton John Milton 1. An Introduction to Milton 2. To Cyriack Skinner 3. An Introduction to Paradise Lost 4. Except from Book IV. Big social events in Milton’s age 1642-1649: the Civil war 1649: King Charles I was executed and the Commonwealth was established 1649-1658: Oliver Cromwell led the country as Protector 1658: Cromwell died 1660: Charles II restored the monarchy The English Bourgeois Revolution/ Puritan Revolution Politically: the Monarchy (Royalists) V.S. Republicans Religiously: Anglican Church V.S. Puritan The Result: A Civil War (1642-1649) A Revolution with religious banner Politics and religion could not be separated the Anglican Royalists V.S. the Puritan Republicans headed by Charles I headed by Cromwell (内战所演变的革命是以国王为首的保皇党人和以克伦威尔为领袖的信奉清教的共和党人之间的冲突） 外交部的拉丁文秘书：双目失明 《失乐园》（史诗） 《复乐园》 （史诗） 《力士参孙》（诗剧） General Description One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Miltons powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil. 1. Life educated at Cambridge—visiting the continent—involved into the revolution—persecuted—writing epics.  2. Literary career. (1) The 1st period was up to 1641, during which time he is to be seen chiefly as a son of the humanists and Elizabethans, although his Puritanism is not absent. L‘Allegre《快乐的人》 and IL Penseroso 《沉思的人》 (1632) are his early masterpieces, in which we find Milton a true offspring of the Renaissance, a scholar of exquisite taste and rare culture. Next came Comus《科玛斯》, a masque. The greatest of early creations was Lycidas《利息达斯》, a pastoral elegy on the death of a college mate, Edward King. (2) The second period is from 1641 to 1654, when the Puritan was in such complete ascendancy that he wrote almost no poetry. In 1641, he began a long period of pamphleteering for the p