John Milton[John_Milton]

Oraş de reşedinţă: Londra
Are limba maternă


Biografie John Milton

Pagina personală web John Milton


 Adresa directă a acestui autor este : 

Cele mai recente texte introduse:

Cele mai recente texte introduse:

Comentarii:

Texte înscrise în bibliotecă:

Pagina: 1

An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6821 afişări)

An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6265 afişări)

Another On The Same :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6586 afişări)

Comus :
Poezie 2010-04-26 (9981 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book I :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (7669 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book II :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (7682 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book III :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6284 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book IV :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6844 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book IX :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6762 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book V :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6479 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book VI :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6769 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book VII :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (7071 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book VIII :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6591 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book X :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (7201 afişări)

PARADISE LOST -- Book XII :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6628 afişări)

PARADISE LOST --Book XI :
Poezie 2005-08-29 (6649 afişări)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent :
Poezie 2005-06-13 (9025 afişări)

Biografie John Milton

1608 - 1674
One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667). Milton's powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights.
John Milton was born in London. His mother Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father, also named John, had risen to prosperity as a scrivener or law writer - he also composed music. The family was wealthy enough to afford a second house in the country. Milton's first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University. At the age of twelve Milton was admitted to St Paul's School near his home and five years later he entered Christ's College, Cambridge. During this period, while considering himself destined for the ministry, he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English. One of Milton'e earliest works, 'On the Death of a Fair Infant' (1626), was written after his sister Anne Phillips has suffered from a miscarriage.
Paradise Lost is not easy to read with its odd syntax, difficult vocabulary, and complex, noble style. Moreover, its cosmic vision is not actually based on the Copernican system, but more in the traditional Christian cosmology of its day, where the Earth is the center, not the sun. The poem tells a biblical story of Adam and Eve, with God, and Lucifer (Satan), who is thrown out of Heaven to corrupt humankind. Satan, the most beautiful of the angels, is at his most impressive: he wakes up, on a burning lake in Hell, to find himself surrounded by his stunned followers. He has been defeated in the War of Heaven. "All is not lost; th' unconquerable Will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield... /" Milton created a powerful and sympathetic portrait of Lucifer. His character bears similarities with Shakespeare's hero-villains Iago and Macbeth, whose intellectual nihilism is transformed into metaphysical drama