John Milton John Milton John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), written in blank verse. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated "Areopagitica" (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of free speech and freedom of
The Ray of the Microcosm humankind on Earth. The third part comprises the remaining four cantos which describe Satan’s mutiny against God and fall of Adam and his legion from Heaven. The Ray of the Microcosm “The Ray of the Microcosm” () is a romantic, cosmic-religious poem, written in 1845 by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. It is written in the decasyllabic meter of Serbian epic poetry. Njegoš’s religious poetic thought achieved its highest artistic shape in this work. The poem contains three main thematic parts. The first is the Dedication which introduces some of the most important philosophical and religious premises of the