John Milton

John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, most famous for his blank verse epic Paradise Lost. He is also remembered for authoring the brief epic Paradise Regained, the closet drama Samson Agonistes, the monody Lycidas, and Areopagitica, a prose work that condemns pre-publishing censorship.

Works

• Comus, (1634)
• Lycidas, (1638)
• Of Reformation, (1641)
• Of Prelatical Episcopacy, (1641)
• Animadversions, (1641)
• The Reason for Church Government, (1642)
• Apology for Smectymnuus, (1642)
• Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, (1643)
• Of Education, (1644)
• Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce, (1644)
• Areopagitica, (1644)
• Tetrachordon, (1645)
• Colasterion, (1645)
• Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin, (1645)
• Tenure of King's and magistrates, (1649)
• Eikonoklastes, (1649)
• Defensio pro Populo Anglicano, (1651)
• Defensio Seconda, (1654)
• A treatise of Civil Power, (1659)
• The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church, (1659)
• Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, (1659)
• Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon, (1660)
• Paradise Lost, (1667)
• Accedence Commenced Grammar, (1669)
• History of Britain, (1670)
• Samson Agonistes, (1671)
• Paradise Regained, (1671)
• Art of Logic, (1672)
• Of True Religion, (1673)
• Poems, &c, Upon Several Occasions, (1673)
• Epistolae Familiaries, (1674)
• Prolusiones, (1674)