John Milton

He was born in London in a wealthy puritan family in 1608 and was an humanist scholar that was interested in literature and politics. He did an European tour and he knew Latin, Greek and Italian. He became the Secretary for Foreign Languages in Cromwell’s Council of State in 1649. He wrote pamphlets about the freedom of the press and in favor of the Civil war and in favor of divorce because his wife divorced and went back home. He is best known for Paradise Lost, its sequel Paradise Returned and Areopagitica(freedom of press).

Paradise Lost:

It’s a epic poem for intellectuals based on the Bible, it is divided in twelve books and it tells the story of the war between God and Satan with the fallen angels. Milton writes the epic poem about how experience takes away innocence and that’s what happened when Eve took the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

We read Satan’s Speech