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John Milton (1562–1647) was an English composer and father of poet John Milton. His compositions were mostly religious in theme. A financial worker by trade, he also wrote poetry.
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
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As a young boy he is taught by Thomas Young, a Scottish Presbyterian and then moves St. Paul’s School, London and Christ’s College, Cambridge.
8th-10th November 1674, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England from complications due to gout.
1628: “On the Death of a Fair Infant dying of a Cough”. 1629: “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”. 1630: “The Passion” (unfinished). 1631: “L’Allegro” and “Il Penserro”. 1632: “On Shakespeare”. 1637: “Comus”. 1638: “Lycidas.” “Justa Eduardo King”. “Mansus”. 1640: “Epitahium Damonis”. 1641: “Of Reformation in England”.”Of Prelatical Episcopacy”. “...
May or June 1642 to Mary Powell. (died 1652).November 1656 to Katherine Woodcock. (died 1658).24th February 1663 to Elizabeth Minshull.May 26, 2024 · John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. He is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.
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- John Milton (1608–74) is considered the most significant English writer after William Shakespeare. His epic Paradise Lost, classical tragedy Samson...
- When he was 11, John Milton entered St. Paul’s School, London, where he excelled in Greek, Latin, and Italian. He composed Latin verse and translat...
- When John Milton’s Paradise Lost appeared in 1667, only people close to him commended it. By the early 1700s, however, John Dryden had written an o...
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.
John Milton was born 9 December 1608 in Cheapside1 under the sign of the Spread Eagle2. His father, John Milton, Senior, was a fairly well-known composer who contributed to a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth 3 .
English amateur composer, father of the poet John Milton. He was educated at Oxford and later became a member ... From: Milton, John in The Oxford Companion to Music »
