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English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

For other people named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation).

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.

His 1667 epic poemParadise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angelSatan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden.

Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets.^[1][2] He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

Milton achieved fame and recognition during his lifetime; his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom