ಜಾನ್ ಮಿಲ್ಟನ್

ಜಾನ್ ಮಿಲ್ಟನ್ (9 ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ 1608 – 8 ನವಂಬರ್ 1674)   17ನೆಯ ಶತಮಾನದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಕವಿ. ಮಿಲ್ಟನ್ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷಿನ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯಗಳಾದ ಪ್ಯಾರಡೈಸ್ ಲಾಸ್ಟ್ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ಯಾರಡೈಸ್ ರೀಗೇನ್ಡ್ ಕೃತಿಗಳ ಕರ್ತೃ. ಇವಲ್ಲದೆ ಲಿಸಿಡಾಸ್, ಕೋಮಸ್ ಮುಂತಾದ ಕವನಗಳೂ ಸ್ಯಾಮ್ಸನ್ ಆಗೊನಿಸ್ಟಿಸ್ ಎಂಬ ನಾಟಕವೂ ಅವನವೇ. ಸಾನೆಟ್ ಜಾತಿಯ ಕವಿತೆಗಳಿಗೂ ಮಿಲ್ಟನ್ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧನಾಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಕಾವ್ಯದ ವಿಷಯ, ರೂಪ ಯಾವುದೇ ಆಗಿರಲಿ ಮಿಲ್ಟನ್ ತನ್ನ ಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಔನ್ನತ್ಯ, ಭವ್ಯತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮೂಡಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಅವನ ಹಾಗೆ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಸರಳ ರಗಳೆಯನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿರುವ ಕವಿ ಬೇರೆ ಯಾರೂ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಅವನ ಕೃತಿಗಳೆಲ್ಲ ಪ್ಯೂರಿಟನ್ ಪಂಥದ ಆದರ್ಶಗಳನ್ನೂ ರೀತಿನೀತಿಗಳನ್ನೂ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸುತ್ತವೆ.

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Biography of John Milton Encyclopædia Britannica
"The masque in Milton's Arcades and Comus" by Gilbert McInnis
Milton's cottage
Famous quotations
Site dedicated to Milton
Books on Milton's life and works 
Open Milton  – an open set of Milton's works, together with ancillary information and tools, in a form designed for reuse, launched on Milton's 400th Birthday by the Open Knowledge Foundation
Milton Reading Room  – online, almost fully annotated, collection of all of Milton's poetry and selections of his prose
Milton-L Homepage – a scholarly website devoted to the life, literature and times of Milton. It hosts the webpage for the Milton Society of America, as well as the Milton listserv, an Internet discussion group for Milton.
John Milton index entry at Poets' Corner
Milton 400th Anniversary  – lots of Milton material and details of the Milton 400th Anniversary Celebrations, from Christ's College, Cambridge, where Milton studied
Thomas Ellwood's Epitaph for John Milton 
A common-place book of John Milton, and a Latin essay and Latin verses presumed to be by Milton. Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection. {Reprinted by} Cornell University Library Digital Collections
"John Milton-poet or politician?" on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, featuring John Carey, Lisa Jardine, Blair Worden
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday - Frank Kermode in The New York Review of Books
 Audio: Robert Pinsky reads "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"  by John Milton (via poemsoutloud.net )
Timeline of the Life and Works of Milton at The Online Library Of Liberty
Areopagitica (Jebb ed.) [1664]. See original text in The Online Library Of Liberty.
The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited after the Original Texts by the Rev. H.C. Beeching M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900). See original text in The Online Library Of Liberty.
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. In Two Volumes (Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1847). See original text in The Online Library Of Liberty.
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by Evert Mordecai Clark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1915). See original text in The Online Library Of Liberty
Online exhibition at Christ's College celebrating the 400th anniversary of Milton's birth 
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, edited with Introduction and Notes by William Talbot Allison (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911). See original text in The Online Library Of Liberty.
Australian radio interview, Stephen Fallon and Nigel Smith on Milton at 400
Australian radio feature on John Milton at 400
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus and other John Milton's works in HTML format.

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