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milton was a great poet. (which tense to use)​

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1John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse, and widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.

John Milton

Portrait of Milton, circa 1629

Portrait of Milton, circa 1629

Born

9 December 1608

Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England

Died

8 November 1674 (aged 65)

Bunhill, London, England

Resting place

St Giles-without-Cripplegate

Occupation

Poet, prose polemicist, civil servant

Language

English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian, Old English, Dutch

Alma mater

Christ's College, Cambridge

Spouse

Mary Powell

(m. 1642; died 1652)

Katherine Woodcock

(m. 1656; died 1658)

Elizabeth Mynshull (m. 1663)

Children

5

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Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime; his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. His desire for freedom extended into his style: he introduced new words (coined from Latin and Ancient Greek) to the English language, and was the first modern writer to employ unrhymed verse outside of the theatre or translations.

William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest English author",[1] and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language",[2] though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind", though he (a Tory and recipient of royal patronage) described Milton's politics as those of an "acrimonious and surly republican

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