FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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England’s first poet
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England’s first dramatist
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England’s poet laureate
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England’s greatest civil engineer
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Milton was a 17th century historian, journalist and poet born on December 9th, 1608 in London, England.
Detailed explanation-2: -1625-1660 this period is known as the Age of Milton or the Puritan Age, because during the period, Puritan standards prevailed in England, and also because the greatest literary figure John Milton was a Puritan. The puritan’s struggled for righteousness and liberty.
Detailed explanation-3: -The age in which Milton lived and wrote is known in history as the Puritan age. It was filled with the political and religious strife-the Civil War, the triumph of Puritanism and the Restoration.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Milton (1608–74) is considered the most significant English writer after William Shakespeare. His epic Paradise Lost, classical tragedy Samson Agonistes, and pastoral elegy Lycidas are widely regarded as the greatest poems of their kind in English.