[DOC] [TLE] John Milton - Wikipedia [PAR] John Milton (9 December 1608  8 November 1674) was an English poet, 
polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England 
under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, 
and is best known ... Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which...
with respect to... [DOC] [TLE] I [PAR] Poems (1645, 1673) and Paradise Lost (1667, 1674). If scholars ... Young may 
have occupied this poaititm for only a few years, he later played ... have received '
more then ordinary favour and respect . . . above any of my ... at Cambridge both 
before and after his graduation (YP 1: 884). ... his boyhood friend (CM 12: 201). [DOC] [TLE] 15. "Paradise Lost". V. Milton. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The ... [PAR] That Paradise Lost was entered at Stationers' Hall (that is to say, that it was 
printed and ready for sale) on 20 August, 1667, is the main documentary fact. ... 
nomine, but four successive drafts, each more elaborate than the preceding, exist 
of ... others several years before the poem was begun, as the overture of the 
tragedy. [DOC] [TLE] John Milton - Biography and Literary Works of John Milton | Love ... [PAR] He was a renowned English poet, historian civil servant for Commonwealth and 
pamphleteer. After William Shakespeare, he is considered to be one of the great
... [DOC] [TLE] John Milton was a poet and a freedom fighter - Telegraph [PAR] Dec 9, 2008 ... William Blake's illustration to John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' ... that John Milton, 
born 400 years ago yesterday, wrote Paradise Lost. ... He then moved on to 
education  "the end then of learning is to ... "The idea that Milton was a journalist
, before newspapers existed is risible. ..... But, Milton focused on human [DOC] [TLE] Paradise Lost - Assets - Cambridge - Cambridge University Press [PAR] poem  one focusing on sacred truths and attempting, after the collapse of the ... 
erable prominence as a controversial pamphleteer, he had still not written 
anything in verse ... years before the poem was begun (Aubrey suggests fifteen 
or sixteen. 1 .... It should not surprise us, then, to find that Paradise Lost itself ex- 
plores a... [DOC] [TLE] Of Milton's First Disobedience and the Fruit of the Tree [PAR] Ad Patrem, composed within a few years of Milton's finishing his M.A. at ... 
contradiction in Paradise Lostbeginning with his justification of God to man and 
yet .... happy than Adam and Eve's original condition (156), but he discounts the 
..... mind concerning Milton's desire to be a poet, it also deflects focus away from 
the... [DOC] [TLE] John Milton and the Epochs of International Law - European Journal ... [PAR] Milton's law of nations in Paradise Lost requires a careful balance of ... stories of 
international law, but that is not because he had nothing to say about the ... law 
than that typically on offer  one more sensitive to humanist methods, literary ..... 
and to 'the British Age' (18151919), before his 20th-century sections on 'the inter
-. [DOC] [TLE] View/Open - SHAREOK Home [PAR] and the invocations of Paradise Lost suggest he didhe was at the very least ... 
their own illustrate the remarkable recuperation of the poet-pamphleteer's ... It 
began at least more than a century before Blake began to redefin Milton .... 
Fortunately, early adaptations have been the focus of more recent studies by ..... 
Page 20... [DOC] [TLE] Satan's Imprisoning Words - FAU Digital Collections [PAR] layering technique is Satan, and it is he who Milton uses to link the biblical past to 
... lyrical genius, or seeing Satan as nothing more than a liar to be dismissed by ... 
Satans prominent role in Paradise Lost highlights the poems main focus: to ... 
and heretical theories being printed and circulated than the years before and... [DOC]

Question: In the 20 years before “Paradise Lost”, he was more focused on pamphleteering than poetry
Answer: Milton