FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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the king
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the House of Lords
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popular election
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God
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Detailed explanation-1: -Milton supported a republican form of government. In 1649, Milton wrote The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates expressing his support of a republican form of government. English republicanism grew during the English Civil War after the royalist forces were defeated at Worcester during September 1651.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tenure of King’s and Magistrates (1648) Defence of the People of England (1651) Second Defence of the People of England. The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660)
Detailed explanation-3: -Paradise Lost incorporates both Republican concepts, as established in his political tracts (such as the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates), and heretical Arian theology, as set out in his De Doctrina Christiana.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”.