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| name = John Milton
| image = John Milton Christ's College.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1608|12|9}}
| birth_place = [[Bread Street]], London, England
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Milton's views developed from extensive reading, travel, and experience that began with his days as a student at Cambridge in the 1620s and continued through the [[English Civil War]], which started in 1642 and continued until 1651.<ref>Masson 1859 pp. v–vi.</ref> By the time of his death in 1674, Milton was impoverished and on the margins of English intellectual life but famous throughout Europe and unrepentant for political choices that placed him at odds with governing authorities.
Milton is regarded as one of the greatest poets of English literature even though criticism animadverting his oeuvre came from notable quarters such as [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Joseph Addison]]. According to some scholars, Milton was second in influence to none but [[William Shakespeare]]. In one of his books, [[Samuel Johnson]] praised him for having the power of <nowiki>'displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy and aggravating the dreadful.''</nowiki>
== Early life and education ==
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