• John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on 9 December 1608, the son of composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey.
  • In March 1649, less than two months after the execution of Charles I, John Milton took on the position of Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Commonwealth...
  • John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare.
  • John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who wrote during a period of political and religious turmoil.
  • John Milton was born in Bread Street, London on 9 December 1608, to composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey.
  • John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, is best known for writing "Paradise Lost," widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.
  • The life and times of John Milton who was a Seventeenth Century blind epic poet most famous for his long poems “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained”.
  • John Milton was born in 1608. Milton’s grandfather was a Roman Catholic, but his father embraced the Church of England.
  • His father John Milton Sr. was a scrivener who prepared wills and deeds for others and his mother was Sarah Jeffrey, the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
  • During this time, Milton published his first volume of poetry, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (1645).