Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
John Miltonwas born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishingParadise Lostin 1667, andParadise Regainedin 1671. He died in 1674.