John Milton at age ten, 1618. After Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661). John Milton (1608-1674), English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

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