John Milton

John Milton Sr. worked as a _________

scrivener, a legal secretary whose duties included preparation and notarization of documents, as well as real estate transactions and moneylending

Milton was taught ______

classical languages by private tutors bc of his family's financial prosperity

At age 12, Milton went to this school

St. Paul's School

he was nicknamed ______ bc he still looked so small and young and somewhat effeminate

The Lady of St. Paul's

in 1625, Milton was admitted to _____

Christ's College, Cambridge

a year later, he was ____ after a dispute with his _____

suspended (rusticated),

tutor

it was at Cambridge that he composed ___________ on _______

"On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" on December 25th

His poem about Shakespeare was called

"On Shakespeare"

"On Shakespeare" was published in the

Second Folio

When Milton's close friend Edward King died by drowning, Milton composed the elegy ____ in his memory

Lycidas

Milton settled down in _____ where he began tutoring his ______

London, two nephews

The ______ was brewing

______ invaded ____ in 1639

Civil War, King Charles I, Scotland

Milton began writing ____ on political and _____ matters

pamphlets, religious

In 1642, Milton married _______

Mary Powell

Matters were not improved when the Powells declared for the King (the Royalist Party) in the _______

Civil War

This prompted Milton to write his so called _________, speaking for divorce on the grounds of incompatibility

Divorce Tracts

regarding divorce, in 1643 Milton published the __________

Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

In 1645, he also published the ______. The Divorce Tracts caused an uproar and earned him the nickname ____________

Tetrachordon, "Milton the Divorcer"

In reference to the attempted censorship by the ___________, Milton published ____________, an oration advocating freedom of the press in ____

Stationers' Company, Areopagitica, 1644

Milton also wrote a treatise _______ which prescribed a rigorous course of study for English youth

Of Education

In 1645 Milton's Wife _____ returned, and _____ moved in with the Milton's bc the _________ had be ousted from Oxford

Mary Powell, the Powell family, Royalists

On January 30, 1649 ___ was publicly executed

Charles I

as a result of the execution, Milton published

On the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

After the execution, Milton was appointed ________

Latin Secretary

_____ was the official language to communicate with other countries

Latin

The year of _____ was one of many personal losses for Milton. He lost his sight, Mary died, his one year old son died

1652

After Milton lost his sight he published _______

"When I Consider How my Light is Spent"

Milton married _______ after Mary's death, but eventually both his new daughter and wife passed away and in her memory he wrote the sonnet ___________________

Katherine Woodcock, "Methought I saw my late espoused saint"

When the days of the Commonwealth came to a close, Milton had to go into hiding for fear of retribution from the followers of ______

King Charles II

Milton was eventually ___________ to be released later by order of the Parliament

arrested and thrown into prison

King Charles II was eventually restored to the throne, marking the start of the period called ________

"The Restoration"

Milton spent his time finishing his life's work, the epic _________

Paradise Lost

He would compose verse upon verse at night in his head and then dictate them from memory to his _________ in the morning

amanuenses

Paradise Lost saw publication in

1667, in 10 books

Milton's Areopagitica was one of the originating documents about

freedom of speech and press

A speech of Milton for the ________ to the _______

liberty of unlicensed printing/Parliament of England

One of the earliest documents used in drafting the American Bill of Rights was the ________

English Bill of Rights in 1689

1st drafts of Paradise Lost were about

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, he trashed all this bc it would make it seem like he was showing support for King Charles I

Purpose of Paradise Lost

to justify the ways of God to man, and assert eternal providence

form of Paradise Lost

blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter

Paradise Lost is an ____, it celebrates _____ action, ______ style, and _____ diction

epic,

heroic, grand, elevated

One or more

heroic persons are celebrated, who are usually national heroes. The heroes are representative figures who demonstrate larger concepts like the virtues of the nation. Often, the very fate or existence of the nation is at stake in the battles of the hero.

Also, the gods may be involved

directly or indirectly either as spectators or as participants. The plot of the story commonly involves a visit to the underworld.

At this time, God is viewed as:

omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent

Satan means:

adversary, or The Deceiver

Greatest Christian act is

suffering

Milton says his poem will be more of an epic because it will include ____

suffering

beauty=

goodness

Satan is portrayed as a ____

hero

All the names of God's angels have "el" in the because

"el" means light in hebrew

Enlightenment aka the

"Age of Reason"