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John Milton
English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 9 December 1608
- Died
- 8 November 1674
- Place of birth
- Cheapside
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Milton
- Father
- John Milton
- Mother
- Sara Jeffrey
- Sibling
- Christopher Milton, Anne Milton
- Field of work
- fiction
- Occupation
- poet, writer, politician
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- depicted by
- John Milton, John Milton (1608–1674)
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), New International Encyclopedia
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Christ's College, St Paul's School, Jesus College
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French, Early Modern Spanish, Aramaic, Syriac, Italian
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- blindness
- name in native language
- John Milton
- notable work
- Paradise Lost, Areopagitica
- place of burial
- St Giles-without-Cripplegate
- relative
- Edward Phillips
- residence
- Chalfont St Giles
- significant person
- Edward Phillips
- topic's main category
- Category:John Milton
- writing language
- English
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