John Milton's Main Points 

–             Milton was the greatest poet of puritan age; he stands head ad shoulders above all his contemporaries.

–             Unlike Shakespeare, he was egoistic, in all his poetry he sings about himself and his lofty soul.

–             He was deeply religious man.

–             He combined in himself the spirit of Renaissance and reformation.

–             He was a great humanist.

–             He thinks poetry as a serious business of life.

–             Wordsworth wrote about him.
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.

–             In the Civil War in , Milton actively participated in the struggle against King Charles-I.

–             Finding himself unfit to fight as a soldier, he became the Latin secretary of Cromwell and spent the best period of his life for national movement instead of poetry.

–             Milton became friend less, after the death of Cromwell and the coming of Charles-II to throne.

–             His own wife and daughter turned against him.

–             He also found himself completely blind.

–             But undaunted by these misfortunes, he girded up his loins and wrote his greatest poetical works.

–             Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonists.

–                             In Paradise Lost & Regained he tried
“to justify the ways of God to Man”