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'''John Milton''' (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet and pamphleteer with a turbulent relationship with his country's religion and politics. He studied at Cambridge to become a minister, but ended up [[Honor Before Reason|not taking his orders]] because of [[Corrupt Church|certain fundamental disagreements with the Church]]. Having next decided to become a poet, believing poetry to be closely linked with prophecy (in the religious sense), he spent a good portion of his youth traveling across Europe, mastering different languages, and meeting prominent academics (such as Galileo, who would later be [[Shout-Out|featured]] in ''[[
Very soon, however, Milton heard the [[Call to Adventure|call]] (or, possibly, stopped being so completely egotistic), and decided to apply himself for [[The Fettered|the good of his country]]. He hung up his poet's hat and started writing [[Badass Bookworm|political tracts]], sometimes in service of Presbyterianism, sometimes for [[La Résistance|Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth]], sometimes about personal and touchy subjects such as [[Author Filibuster|divorce]], but always for a propagation of free thought and overall tolerance. In 1644, he wrote an important defense of free expression, called ''Areopagitica'', which attacked censorship on philosophical and theological grounds.
Other important works of this time period - ''The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates'', ''[[What's Up, King Dude?|Eikonoklastes]]'', and the two [[My Country, Right or Wrong|Defenses of the English People]] - nearly cost Milton his [[Off
=== John Milton is responsible for: ===
* [[Trope Namer|The word Pandemonium]]
* [[Red Right Hand]]
* [[Paradise Lost
* [[Satan]] as [[Draco in Leather Pants]], although this is also the fault of [[Misaimed Fandom|William Blake and other Romantics]]
* Loads of [[Gratuitous Latin]]
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