文档介绍：JOHN MILTON(弥尔顿)
introduction
Life experience
Literacy career
Paradise Lost
(1608-1674)
A brief introduction
John Milton (1608-1674) One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667). Milton ‘s powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse(诗句). Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil (公民自由)and religious rights.
Life experience
learning experience
London
St Paul 's School
Christ's College
Cambridge
Self-directed study
Grand tour
Milton 's first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University . At the age of twelve Milton was admitted to St Paul 's School near his home and five years later he entered Christ's College, Cambridge .
Milton did not adjust to university life. He was called, half in scorn, "The Lady of Christ's", and after starting a fist fight with his tutor, he was expelled for a term. On leaving Cambridge Milton had given up his original plan to e a priest. He adopted no profession but spent six years at leisure in his father's home, writing during that time L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO (1632), COMUS (1634), and LYCIDAS (1637), written after the death of his friend Edward King. In 1635 the Milton moved to Horton, Buckinghamshire, where John pursued his studies in Greek, Latin, and Italian. He traveled in France and Italy in the late 1630s, meeting in Paris the jurist and theologian Hugo Grotius and the astronomer Galileo Galilei in Florence - there are references to Galileo's telescope in Paradise Lost .
His conversation with the scientist Milton recorded in his celebrated plea for a free speech and free discussion, AREOPAGITICA (1644), in which he stated that books "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect bred in them." Milton returned to London in 1639, and set up a school wit