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An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (7030 affiches)

An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6422 affiches)

Another On The Same :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6725 affiches)

Comus :
Poèmes 2010-04-26 (10194 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book I :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (7841 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book II :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (7851 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book III :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6424 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book IV :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6983 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book IX :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6913 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book V :
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PARADISE LOST -- Book VI :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6955 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book VII :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (7206 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book VIII :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6744 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book X :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (7367 affiches)

PARADISE LOST -- Book XII :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6755 affiches)

PARADISE LOST --Book XI :
Poèmes 2005-08-29 (6804 affiches)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent :
Poèmes 2005-06-13 (9215 affiches)

Biographie John Milton

1608 - 1674
One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667). Milton's powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse. Besides poems, Milton published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights.
John Milton was born in London. His mother Sarah Jeffrey, a very religious person, was the daughter of a merchant sailor. His father, also named John, had risen to prosperity as a scrivener or law writer - he also composed music. The family was wealthy enough to afford a second house in the country. Milton's first teachers were his father, from whom he inherited love for art and music, and the writer Thomas Young, a graduate of St Andrews University. At the age of twelve Milton was admitted to St Paul's School near his home and five years later he entered Christ's College, Cambridge. During this period, while considering himself destined for the ministry, he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English. One of Milton'e earliest works, 'On the Death of a Fair Infant' (1626), was written after his sister Anne Phillips has suffered from a miscarriage.
Paradise Lost is not easy to read with its odd syntax, difficult vocabulary, and complex, noble style. Moreover, its cosmic vision is not actually based on the Copernican system, but more in the traditional Christian cosmology of its day, where the Earth is the center, not the sun. The poem tells a biblical story of Adam and Eve, with God, and Lucifer (Satan), who is thrown out of Heaven to corrupt humankind. Satan, the most beautiful of the angels, is at his most impressive: he wakes up, on a burning lake in Hell, to find himself surrounded by his stunned followers. He has been defeated in the War of Heaven. "All is not lost; th' unconquerable Will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield... /" Milton created a powerful and sympathetic portrait of Lucifer. His character bears similarities with Shakespeare's hero-villains Iago and Macbeth, whose intellectual nihilism is transformed into metaphysical drama