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JONE MILTON’REPUTATION William Hayleys 1796 biography called him the greatest English author,[1] and he remains generally regarded as one of the preeminent writers in the English language, Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind, As a politician, by the time of his death in 1674, Milton was impoverished and on the margins of English intellectual life, yet unrepentant for his political choices, and of Europe-wide fame. As a poet, He towers ove