John Milton — "To be more known, to be more loved, to be more praised, to be more admired, to b…"
To be more known, to be more loved, to be more praised, to be more admired, to be more sought after, to be more followed, to be more magnified, to be more glorified, to be more adored, to be more worshipped, to be more divinely honoured, to be more reverenced, to be more served, to be more blessed, to be more happy, to be more contented, to be more satisfied, to be more joyful, to be more triumphant, to be more glorious, to be more excellent, to be more perfect, to be more absolutely divine.
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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.
Details
De Doctrina Christiana
Date: Posthumously published, c. 1658-1660 written
