This file offers links about John Milton's
biography, 17th-Century England, and about the reception
of Milton’s texts from the 17th Century to the present
days. Here, there are also hypertexts with general information
about the works of Milton.
Biography
Biography.com
Blind
poet returned to poetry after 20 years of writing pamphlets
supporting the revolution in England. Read also about
his life here.
http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=2887
Books
and Writers
John
Milton was born in London. His mother Sarah Jeffrey was
the daughter of a merchant sailor, and his father had
risen to prosperity...
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jmilton.htm
Christian
Classics Ethereal Library
Biography:
Milton is "among the five greatest poets in the English
language." Read about the Christian Faith discernable
in his poetry.
http://www.ccel.org/m/milton/
Incompetech
Tongue-in-cheek
biography of the poet outlines his strange time-line,
the loss of his eyesight, his three marriages, and his
political trouble.
http://www.incompetech.com/authors/milton/
Institute
and Museum of the History of Science
Milton
was born in London. The son of a wealthy notary. He became
a Puritan, and an opponent of...
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b/emilton.html
John
Milton, poet
John
Milton was born in London in 1608. Seven and a half years
before the death of Shakespeare...
http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/11/08.html
Luminarium
- English Literature
Profile,
the texts of poems and epics, essays, quotations, and
links to information about this influential author of
Paradise Lost.
www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/
Michael
Bryson
Offers background
about the Reformation and Milton's religious ideas, the
texts of many of his political tracts, and Paradise Lost.
http://www.brysons.net/miltonweb/
The
Literature Network
Extensive
biography of John Milton a searchable collection of works.
http://www.online-literature.com/milton/
Thomson
Gale
Poetry
resource provides a substantial biography of one of the
best-known British poets.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/bio/milton_j.htm
University
Pennsylvania
Find
out how Milton was imprisoned and almost executed before
he had the chance to publish Paradise Lost from this biography.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/FrankenDemo/Milton/bio.html
2020site
A
brief biography and some poems by the British poet John
Milton, author of Paradise Lost and other essential texts
of English Literature.
http://www.2020site.org/milton
Works
Luminarium
- English Literature
An
annotated and hyperlinks edition of Milton's poetry and
major prose.
www.dartmouth.edu/~milton
Samuel
Johnson's Lives of the English Poets
Besides
the books and poems, this site has many analyses and critical
views on John Milton and his texts.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/milton/default.html
The
Bartleby.com
This
site contains the texts of Milton as well as analyses
of them, and also everything about Milton's life.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/milton-j.html
"The
Milton-L Home Page"
John Milton on the web, with links to e-texts, audio,
images, archives and more.
http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/
