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Born in London in 1608, John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
Milton wrote in the seventeenth century. it was the century of transition into our modern world, when the Civil Wars separated men from the older ways of living and much that remained lively in the national imagination since the Middle Ages, was killed by the religious controversies. a great stylist and an experimentalist, Milton employed a language in this poem which is remarkable for sustained dignity.