John Milton
(1608-1674)

Eliza: you're an idiot. I waste the treasures of my Miltonic mind by
spreading them before you.

Henry Higgens from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

A Quick Overview
Milton, John was one of the greatest poets of the English language. He also was a noted historian, scholar, pamphleteer, and
  civil servant for the Parliamentarians and the Puritan Commonwealth.

Comments: One of the greatest literary minds of the British language who is today ignored because his Christianity bothers modern scholars.  Ironically because of this exclusion by the secular academic world he is also often ignored by Christian Institutions of Higher Education.

His Life
Links
His Works

•  Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, (1634)
• "Lycidas" (e-text) (1638)
• Paradise Lost (e-text) (1667)
• Paradise Regained (1671)

Short works

• On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough (e-text)
• On His Blindness (e-text) (Audio)
• On His Deceased Wife (e-text (Audio)

• Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England (1641);
• The Reason of Church-Government Urg'd Against Prelaty (1642);
• An Apology Against a Pamphlet Call'd A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon a Remonstrant AgainstSmectymnuus (1642);
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643, enlarged 1644);
• Of Education (1644);
• Areopagitica (1644);
• The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649);
• Eikonoklastes (1649); A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (1659);'
• Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church (1659);
• The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660);
• The History of Britain (1670);
• Of True Religion, Haeresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means May Be Us'd Against the Growth of Popery (1673);
• A Brief History of Moscovia (1682).

Links

Milton Quarterly
Abstracts and Miltoniana can be found at the site of this journal devoted to the epic poet.
http://voyager.cns.ohiou.edu/~somalley/milton.html     (Size 9.9K)

Milton-L Home Page
Milton texts, info on the electronic discussion group Milton-L and pointers leading to all things Milton on the World Wide Web.
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html     (Size 10.1K)

Milton Grimleigh's Bibliography of John Milton
John Milton, his life and family . - A Bibliography . There is a vast amount of criticism and scholarly musing on the work of John Milton - none of which I feel able to comment ...
http://www.nyx.net/~mgrimlei/jmbibl.html     (Size 3.0K)

The Milton-L Home Page
The Milton-L Home Page is a comprehensive index for information onthe poet John Milton, with links to etexts, scholarly articles, reviews,images and more.
http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton.html     (Size 10.1K)

Milton Grimleigh's "John Milton" WWW page at Nyx
John Milton 1608-74. This is an attempt to be a central collection of pointers to material about and by the English poet and writer John Milton . Space restrictions at this site ...
http://www.nyx.net/~mgrimlei/jmilton.html     (Size 3.8K)

Milton-L: Milton on the Web
Milton on the Web | Scholarly Articles | Book Reviews | Book Notices
http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/mweb.html     (Size 12.0K)

Milton-L: Milton on the Web
Milton on the Web | Scholarly Articles | Book Reviews | Book Notices
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/mweb.html     (Size 12.0K)

Milton, MA Business Pages
Milton, MA Business Pages contains the easiest to access lists of Milton information including links to Milton businesses, arts, libraries, transportation, maps, weather, en ...
http://www.theaction.com/milton/milton.html     (Size 10.4K)

Milton, Massachusetts Business Web Pages No Frames
Milton, Massachusetts Business Web Pages. Index Milton Main Page Milton Sample Listings Milton Business Registration Milton Food and Drink Milton Services Milton Stores Milton ...
http://www.theaction.com/milton/milton_no.html     (Size 1.9K)

John Milton
John Milton
http://www.literature.org/Works/John-Milton/     (Size 2.2K)
 

John Milton

http://www.sonnets.org/milton.htm

Images of Paradise Lost

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg132.htm

Dore Illustrations of Paradise Lost

http://www.scathach.de/dore/paradise/paradis1.htm

His Life

Milton ranks second only to Shakespeare among
English poets; his writings and his influence are an
important part of the history of English literature,
culture, and libertarian thought. He is best known for
Paradise Lost, which is generally regarded as the
greatest epic poem in the English language. Milton's
prose works, however, are also important as a valuable
interpretation of the Puritan revolution, and they have
their place in modern histories of political and religious
thought. (See Milton, John, libertarianism.)

Milton's grandfather, an Oxfordshire yeoman, had been
a staunch Roman Catholic who had disinherited his son,
the poet's father, for turning Protestant. John Milton,
Sr., went to London, where he made his way to
prominence and a comfortable fortune as a scrivener, or
notary, and through the collateral business of private
banking or moneylending. Milton was to pay repeated
tributes to his father's generous concern with his
education. Of his mother (d. 1637) Milton said only that
she was well esteemed and known for her charities. He
had an older sister, Anne, and a younger brother,
Christopher, who became a lawyer.