Conclusion

John Milton was the chief representative of English Classicism and creator of the work “Paradise Lost”, one of the most important works of world literature. After concluding of the studies, he makes a journey through France and Italy where traces a friendship with Galileo Galilei.

The cultivation of reading authors such as Dante, Petrarca, Tasso and among others was crucial to his literary evolution. Thus formed research on mathematics, music and poetic creation. In 1964, when he was engaged in teaching, he published a treatise on education emphasizing the urgent need to make a change in British universities. That same year he published the best-known work “Aeropagitica”, a acclamation freedom of the press without worrying about copyright.

       In 1649, John Milton was stricken with serious vision problems that would let him completely blind. Three years later, he devotes himself to the cause of Oliver Cromwell ardent defender of British Puritanism. After the loss of vision, been arrested, he said the literary classic “Paradise Lost” released in 1667.

Four years later comes the work “Paradise Regained” continuation of the previous volume. According to several authors, the beautiful of Nilton statements of faith were revealed by a man who became blind at the peak of his potential and that he was in God’s Hands.

John Milton is considered one of the greatest English writers of the history of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Milton said in Book 1 that his purpose was to justify the paths chosen by God to man, But he did so in a way that does not reaffirmed the Catholic-Christian logic.

He add and retells the classic story of the origin of man and the earth under a Protestant perspective, what is a criticism of the monarchy in England, the dominant idolatry in Catholic countries and the English Civil War, seeking to put the relationship of Adam and Eve in a perspective of equality and not domination of one over the other.

        The work, which had instant recognition, is an essential book for studies in the literature of that time and its echoes reputation to the present, inspiring visual works such as the paintings of Eugène Delacroix in the 1820s and colorful prints of Salvador Dalí in 1974.

                                   (La Tentation, Salvador Dalí)

In the literature, much of the mythic poetry of Blake was inspired by Milton’s work. There is a quote from the Book X in the opening of Frankenstein (1818) and more currently, the influence has reached the Graphic Novel, Sandman, by Neil Gaiman in which Lucifer is a character who quotes the poem, and there are also several Heavy Metal bands that make references to the work.

(Paradise Lost, the band)

Source:
PYPER, A. O Demonologista. Rio de Janeiro : DarkSide Books, 2015.