Complex sentence: After a simple and blameless life, during which he produced a vast quantity of verse--epic, tragic, pastoral, lyrical and satirical--he died in 1637, at the patriarchal age of eighty-five.
Split into simpler sentences: After a simple and blameless life, during which he produced a vast quantity of verse--epic, tragic, pastoral, lyrical and satirical. He died in 1637, at the patriarchal age of eighty-five.