John Milton (1608 to 1674) was an English poet, polemicist and civil servant whose political prose defended liberty of conscience and of the press. He served the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell, and is best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost, published in 1667. His 1644 pamphlet Areopagitica opposed the Licensing Order of 1643, which had reintroduced censorship of books during the First English Civil War, and it remains one of the most influential arguments for freedom of expression in the English language.
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His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
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is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton
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