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Poet John Milton
John Milton, engraving by Jacob Houbraken, 1741.
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
John Milton and Galileo
John Milton (second from left) meeting Galileo (right), oil painting by Solomon Alexander...
Wellcome Library, London
John Milton
John Milton.
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Gustave Doré: depiction of Satan
Satan, illustration by Gustave Doré from John Milton's
Paradise Lost
.
John Milton:
Paradise Regained
An edition (1758–60) of John Milton's
Paradise Regained
; the binding, which...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Helen Swift Neilson, 1945 (
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John Milton
John Milton at age 62, chromolithograph after a pastel by William Faithorne.
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Chalfont St. Giles
Cottage where John Milton completed
Paradise Lost
, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire,...
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