John milton (1608 ~ 1674) is an English poet, political commentator and democracy fighter. Milton is a representative of Puritan literature, and he has been fighting for bourgeois democratic movement all his life. His masterpiece Paradise Lost, Homer's epic and Divine Comedy are also called the three major western poems.
John milton1608 65438+was born in a wealthy Puritan family in London on February 9th. Influenced by his father's love of literature, Milton loved reading, especially literature, since he was a child. 1625, 16 years old entered Cambridge University and began to write poetry. Master's degree in 1632. Seeing that the state religion at that time was becoming more and more reactionary, he gave up the idea of being a church priest and studied hard for six years behind closed doors, bent on writing great poems that could be passed down from generation to generation. 1638, Milton went to Italy, the European cultural center at that time, to visit local literati, including Galileo imprisoned by the Catholic Church. Milton was deeply moved by Galileo's spirit of upholding truth in adversity. The following year, when I heard that the British revolution was about to break out, I stopped traveling and went back to China to join the revolutionary movement.
John Milton
164 1 year, Milton stood on the side of the revolutionary Puritans and began to participate in religious debates and opposed the state religion, the pillar of the feudal dynasty. He published five pamphlets on religious freedom in more than a year, and wrote "On Freedom of the Press" at 1644 to fight for freedom of speech. 1649, the independents in the revolutionary camp sent the king to the guillotine and established the Republic of China. In order to improve the confidence of the revolutionary people and consolidate the revolutionary regime, Milton published On the Authority of Kings and Officials, and participated in the work of the revolutionary government as a Latin secretary. 1652 blindness due to overwork. 1660, the dynasty was restored, Milton was arrested and imprisoned, and soon released. From then on, he devoted himself to writing poems and tried to realize his great literary ambition. With the help of relatives and friends, * * wrote three long poems: Paradise Lost (1667), paradise regained (167 1) and Samson of Lux (16765438). 1674165438+1died in London on October 8th.