Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

About John Milton

John Milton was born in London on December 9 1608 and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651 he went completely blind but he continued to write finishing Paradise Lost in 1667 and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylans Visions of Sin.Susanne Woods is a Provost nad Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and Chair of the professional Northeast Milton Seminar. Her doctorate is from Columbia University and she has taught at the University of Hawaii Franklin & Marshall College and at Brown University where she maintains an affiliation. Her books include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1984) and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (1999) and she has published numerous articles on Milton and other English renaissance poets.