Milton's career from 1641-1674 fluctuated between a focus on poetry, political and religious criticisms, and histories. With the dissolution of his first marriage in 1642 he began to write extensively on divorce, saying that the breakdown of a marriage should constitute grounds for divorce. When he returned to England, Milton published five anti-prelatical pamphlets that criticize the governance of the Church. Greatly affected by the deaths of his mother and his friend and fellow poet Edward King, Milton traveled abroad to Paris and throughout Italy in 1638. His first published poem was a commendatory poem in the second published folio of Shakespeare’s work in 1632, titled "On Shakespeare." From this early poetry one can see Milton's critical view of Catholicism. Best known for his canonical epic poem, Paradise Lost, Milton began to write poetry in English and Latin at Cambridge in 1625. John Milton (1608-1674), was an English poet and polemicist, and a civil servant under Oliver Cromwell. Title page from Paradise Regain'd, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.īirmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J.
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