It is hard to say that any great modern literature is written without the influence of Milton. John Milton was born in London in 1608, a poet, man of letters and a polemicist. The political landscape of England and English civil war had a great impact on Milton's life and writing. He is also a civil servant for the common wealth of England.
His Works:
- L' Allegro
- ll penseroso
- Comus
- Lycidas
- On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regained
- Samson Agonistes
Paradise Lost is one of the greatest work among his writing, it was published in ten books. It is a great epic based on the facts of bible and it describes how the seed of human life and its curse has been planted. Man's disobedience and justifying the ways of God to men is the major theme of this epic.
Quotes & Sayings by Milton
- Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
- A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
- Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss.
- Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
- Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
- For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
- For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.
- Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.
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