John Milton

Life

Born: 9 December 1608

Died: 8 November 1674

Biography

John Milton was an English poet, author and polemicist, son of composer John Milton the Elder. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica.

He was an accomplished, scholarly man of letters, polemical writer and an official in the government of Oliver Cromwell. Milton was writing at a time of religious and political flux in England, and his poetry and prose reflect deep convictions, often reacting to contemporary circumstances. He wrote also in Latin and Italian, and had an international reputation in his lifetime.

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Settings of text by John Milton

• L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
• Auspicious Morn (Oliver Holden)
• Blest pair of Sirens (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
• Blest pair of sirens (John Stafford Smith)
• Haste thee, Nymph (Ernest Edwin Mitchell)
• Hence, loathed melancholy (Henry Lahee)
• Hymn (after a song of Freedom) (Charles Villiers Stanford)
• Let us, with a gladsome mind (John Antes)
• List! Lady, be not coy (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
• May morning (Ethel Mary Boyce)
• May morning (George J. Webb)
• Milton at 100 (Barbara Rosen)
• Milton's prayer (John S. Wilson)
• Milton, Armed (Barbara Rosen)
• Mirth (Cecil Forsyth)
• Now the bright morning star (Henry David Leslie)
• Now the bright morning star (Henry Hugh Pierson)
• Now the bright morning star (Maria Hester Park)
• On time (Charles Villiers Stanford)
• Praise, O praise our God and King (John Antes)
• Praise, O praise our God and King (Joseph Barnby)
• Sweet Echo (Ethel Mary Boyce)
• The Lord will come and not be slow (Anonymous)
• The Lord will come and not be slow (William Jones)

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