A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF JOHN MILTON

 1. Milton lived through The Caroline, Commonwealth and Restoration Ages.

  2. Milton held the post of Latin secretary during the Commonwealth Government.

    3. Milton became blind at the age of 44. He married for three times.

     4.  There are twelve books in Paradise Lost. In the Book IV Adam and Eve met for the           first time.

      5. Milton wrote a large number of political pamphlets and treatises. They are called               Tracts.

     6.  Milton wrote 18 sonnets in English.

    7. ’They also serve who only stand and wait.””

          This is the concluding line of the sonnet ON HIS BLINDNESS by Milton

             8. Milton’s Paradise Lost is divided into same number of books as DIVINE                      COMEDY.

  9.“”Fame is the last infirmity of the noble mind.”” This line can be found in the poem Lycidas written by Milton.

 10. Lycidas is a pastoral Elegy written by Milton on the death of his Friend Edward King.

“11.”Before the greatness displayed in Milton’s poem, all other greatness shrinks

 away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind.””

Dr. Johnson admires Milton’s Paradise Lost in these words.

12.“”Three poets, in three distant ages born,

Greece, Italy and England did adorn.

The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,

The next in majesty: in thought the last.

The force of nature could no further go,

To make a third, she joined the other two.””

Dryden praises Milton in these words.