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Article: Works of John Milton: Introduction
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Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction
To the student brought up on romantic theories of poets and poetry, the
biography of John Milton, like that of the other two greatest poets of the
English language - Chaucer and Shakespeare, must be disappointing. For all
three men lived lives too ordinary to seem suitable for poets. Chaucer earned
his living most of his life as a civil servant, for a while as a customs
clerk. Shakespeare retired from his profitable career as a playwright to live
out his life peacefully in Stratford and willed his wife his second-best bed.
And Milton, in some ways, departs even farther from the picture we cherish of
the poet: the man tormented by conflicting ...
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