John Milton
poet · London, England · 1608–1674
A poet who wrote for the republic, went blind after forty, lived in hiding when the king returned, and composed a long epic by dictating it to his daughters and friends.
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1667 · Put in the mouth of Satan, cast out of heaven and fallen into hell
The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
Paradise Lost, book 1
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