John Milton — "For what is a city but men? And what is a man, if he be not a rational creature?"
For what is a city but men? And what is a man, if he be not a rational creature?
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"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for knowledge is as food, and needs no less variety than appetite."
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About John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet whose Paradise Lost (1667) is the canonical English epic, written while blind during the Restoration after his service to Cromwell's Commonwealth. Closely associated with Andrew Marvell (Commonwealth poet and friend who protected Milton at the Restoration). For an intellectual contrast, see King Charles II's Restoration court, the courtly, sexually-libertine, theater-reopened world of 1660s London — Milton wrote Paradise Lost as a defeated Republican; the Restoration culture around him celebrated everything his Commonwealth had banned. The cleanest 'losing side writes the masterpiece' moment in English literature — Paradise Lost's Satan is freighted with the political defeat of the regicides Milton served.