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About John Milton
John Milton was an English poet and pamphleteer who served Oliver Cromwell’s government and defended freedom of the press in Areopagitica. Totally blind by 1652, he dictated Paradise Lost, his epic of Satan’s rebellion and the fall of Adam and Eve, published in 1667.
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- “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Satan), 1667
- “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Satan), 1667