John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at
the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a
clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet.
Political in his writings, he served a government post during the
time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he
continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise
Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.
Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University
and most recently author of Dylan's Visions of Sin.
Susanne Woods is a Provost nad Professor of English at Wheaton
College in Massachusetts, and Chair of the professional Northeast
Milton Seminar. Her doctorate is from Columbia University and she
has taught at the University of Hawaii, Franklin & Marshall
College, and at Brown University, where she maintains an
affiliation. Her books include Natural Emphasis- English
Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1984), and Lanyer- A
Renaissance Woman Poet (1999), and she has published numerous
articles on Milton and other English renaissance poets.
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