Discuss the importance of John Milton as a poet and prose writer.

Discuss the importance of John Milton as a poet and prose writer.

Answer: Undoubtedly Milton is regarded as one of the greatest poets in English literature. He is second only to Shakespeare. He was born in London in 1608, and educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge. As a youth, Milton was very attractive, so at the College he was known as The Lady of Christ’s. He was a highly learned man who had made a thorough study of the Bible at home during his childhood.

After leaving the University, he studied at home in Horton. He lived a very moral and pure life. He was a very ambitions man who wanted to write something remarkable which would bring glory to his own country. In order to fulfill this great aim, he wrote Paradise Lost, which is comparable to almost all the great epic of classical writers. His literary works can be divided into three groups for convenience. At first, he wrote his shorter poems at Horton. Next, came his prose work inspired by his Puritanism and his political sympathies. His three greatest works belong to the last group.

First Group- Shorter Poems


At Horton, Milton studied Greek, Latin, English, French, and Italian poets. His pastoral shorter poem L Allegoro (the happy man) describes the joy of life in the country in spring season. The IL Penseroso (the thoughtful man) describes his study during the day and his visits to a church in the evenings of autumn season. Milton also wrote many sonnets and lyric poems. ‘On Shakespeare’ and ‘On His Blindness’ are his famous sonnets. The second one is his autobiographical poem written after his blindness. Lycidas is a sorrowful pastoral on the death of his college friend Edward King.................................................................

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