These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton’s genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God’s justice-and what it truly means to be human.
John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government… More about John Milton
