Facts about John Milton
John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, pamphleteer, and, most enduringly, author of what is widely considered the greatest epic poem in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667).
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John Milton's eponymous father (c. 1562 – 1647) moved to London around 1583, having been disinherited by his devout Catholic father, Richard Milton, a wealthy landowner in Oxfordshire, after revealing his Protestant faith.
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