John Milton

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John Milton was a 17th-century English poet and intellectual best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" and his influential political and religious writings.

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English poet John Milton 1
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instanceOf civil servant
essayist
human
intellectual
pamphleteer
poet
political theorist
writer
birthDate 1608-12-09
birthPlace Kingdom of England
London, England
surface form: London
causeOfDeath kidney failure (probable)
child Anne Milton
Deborah Milton
Mary Milton
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
deathDate 1674-11-08
deathPlace Kingdom of England
London, England
surface form: London
educatedAt Christ's College, Cambridge
St Paul's School, London
employer English Commonwealth
surface form: Commonwealth of England
ethnicGroup English
familyName Milton
fullName John Milton self-link
genre epic poetry
pamphlet
political prose
religious poetry
givenName John
influenced John Keats
John Milton Gregory
Percy Bysshe Shelley
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Hardy
William Blake
influencedBy Edmund Spenser
John Donne
William Shakespeare
Bible
surface form: the Bible
knownFor advocacy of freedom of the press
Paradise Lost
surface form: epic poem Paradise Lost

political writings defending republicanism
religious and theological writings
language English
Latin
movement Puritanism
notableWork Areopagitica
Of Education
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
occupation civil servant
poet
writer
positionHeld Secretary for Foreign Tongues
religiousBelief Protestantism
Puritan
spouse Elizabeth Minshull
Katherine Woodcock
Mary Powell
workPeriod 17th century

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subject surface form: Paradise Lost
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Milton author John Milton
subject surface form: Paradise Lost
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this entity surface form: John Milton Sr.
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this entity surface form: English poet John Milton
John influencedBy John Milton
subject surface form: John Keats
John hasNotableBearer John Milton