文档介绍：John Milton (1608-1674)
Life
Works
Milton’s Reputation
------ born on 1608 ,London, England
------ a scrivener family , puritan
------six children,one of the three who survived
John’s family
Milton‘s Cambridge and Horton day’s
at age 16 Cambridge. finest student
In 1632 ,Milton received his .
In 1629 ,Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and Hebrew(希伯来语), Cambridge to e a clergyman(牧师), but he was dissuaded from this occupation due to “tyranny”(专制统治) in the church.
So, Milton spent the 6 years after getting his . reading the Greek and Latin classics, and studying mathematics and music.
Literary life
In 1637, he visited Italy and met Galileo. He returned to England 1639 and began to think about writing an Arthurian epic
he gave that idea up soon and wavered(动摇) between writing on Biblical(圣经) subjects and heroic figures in British history. In 1640, he decided to write on Paradise Lost.
Published pamphlets in justifying the execution of Charles I
Latin secretary of foreign affairs
In 1652 Milton had e totally blind
In 1660 the restoration Charles II ,regicide ,in prison,saved.
On the day before his 66th birthday, November 8, 1674, Milton died of gout-fever. He was buried in the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, beside his father.
约翰弥尔顿 John Milton
约翰`弥尔顿(John Milton 1608—1674),17世纪英国杰出的诗人和思想家,是继莎士比亚后最伟大的诗人,称雄与动荡的充满激情和暴力的17世纪
Milton’s literary
1625-1640: early poems
1640-1660: pamphlets
1660-1674: Paradise Lost (1665),
Paradise Regained (1671),
Samson Agonistes (1671).
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity《基督诞生晨颂》1629
L’Allegro 《快乐的人》,1632
l Penseroso《沉思的人》,1632
----- lyrical poems
----- cheerful social and the meditative solitary mood
Comus 《科玛斯》,1634
-----blank verse to be set to music and performed
Lycida《利西达斯》,1638
-----an elegy (哀诗) for his friend
---- attack the corrupt clergy of his time and prophesy their ruin
Early poems