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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
John Milton
Born: December 9, 1608
Died: November 8, 1674 (aged 65)
Bio: John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
Known for:
- Paradise Lost (1667)
- Lycidas (1638)
- Milton's 1645 Poems
- The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
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