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Author Description People best know <b>John Milton</b>, English scholar, for <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost" rel="nofollow noopener">Paradise Lost</a> </i>, the epic poem of 1667 and an account of fall of humanity from grace. <br /><br /><i>Beelzebub</i>, one fallen angel in <i>Paradise Lost</i>, of John Milton, lay in power next to Satan. <br /><br /><i>Belial</i>, one fallen angel, rebelled against God in <i>Paradise Lost</i> of John Milton. <br /><br /> <br />John Milton, polemicist, man of letters, served the civil Commonwealth under <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/102283.Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell" rel="nofollow noopener">Oliver Cromwell</a>. He wrote in blank verse at a time of religious flux and political upheaval. <br /><br />Prose of John Milton reflects deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. He wrote in Latin, Greek, and Italian and achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421280.Areopagitica" title="Areopagitica" rel="nofollow noopener">Areopagitica</a> </i> (1644) in condemnation of censorship before publication among most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and the press of history. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/183929.William_Hayley" title="William Hayley" rel="nofollow noopener">William Hayley</a> in biography of 1796 called and generally regarded John Milton, the "greatest ... author," "as one of the preeminent writers in the ... language," though since his death, critical reception oscillated often on his republicanism in the centuries. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22191.Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson" rel="nofollow noopener">Samuel Johnson</a> praised, "with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the ... mind," though he, a Tory and recipient of royal patronage, described politics of Milton, an "acrimonious and surly republican." <br /><br />Because of his republicanism, centuries of British partisanship subjected John Milton. <br />

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