John Milton and Paradise Lost

Question 1

1. Who was john Milton?

Answer 1

He was a committed protestant and humanist scholar.
He felt his poetic inspiration was a gift from god.
he despised all forms of tyranny

Question 2

2.where was he born and what did he study?

Answer 2

-He was born in London in 1608
-In a well-to-do protestant family
-he learned Latin,greek and Italian at cambridge

Question 3

3.What did his first works (poetry,drama,music,songs) relate to?

Answer 3

they celebrated chastity as the only form of human joy and freedom

Question 4

4.What did his elegy Lycidas attack?

Answer 4

The corruption of the Church

Question 5

5. Who did he visit during his tour in europe in 1638?

Answer 5

galileo Galilei in Fiestole

Question 6

6. With who were his sympathies in england politically speaking ? And where did that lead him?

Answer 6

his sympathies were with Cromwell and he fully supported the Commonwealth .
In 1649 he was appointed secretary for foreign languages in cromwell’s Council of State.

Question 7

7. He justified divorce in his pamphlet “doctrine and Discipline of Divorce” why?

Answer 7

Becayuse he married the daughter of a Royalists who promptly left him .

Question 8

8.which are other important pamphlets he wrote ?

Answer 8

-Areopagitica (freedom of the press)
-Of education (advocated schooling in all fields)
-eikonoklastes ( explained execution of the king)

Question 9

9. Milton became?

Answer 9

blind

Question 10

10.Why was he arrested, and later released, with the restoration of the Monarchy ?

Answer 10

Because of his republican writings.

Question 11

11. This experience of personal and political loss led him to write ?

Answer 11

Paradise Lost ,which was written in 1667
he later wrote Paradise regained in 1671 ( on satan’s temptation of Christ )
he died in London in 1674