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description: "Paradise Lost — 12 books in blank verse about Satan, the Fall, and God's judgment — made Milton untouchable in the canon. But he was a working polemicist first: his 1644 Areopagitica defending press freedom remains one of the sharpest attacks on censorship ever written."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Milton studied at Cambridge in the 1620s, then spent years writing poetry privately and cranking out radical pamphlets as Charles I's rule fractured into civil war. His politics were dangerous enough to land him a post under Cromwell's Commonwealth, serving as a civil servant through the 1650s. The Restoration in 1660 cost him that platform, and by then he'd lost his sight. He used the isolation to finish Paradise Lost, published in 1667 — an epic in unrhymed verse, the first modern English writer to try it outside translation or theatre. He died in 1674, broke and on the margins in England, but his reputation across Europe was already fixed. Samuel Johnson, a Tory, called him an "acrimonious and surly republican" but admitted Paradise Lost might be the greatest design the human mind ever attempted.