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John Milton (1608-1674) - after an anonymous miniature of the 17th century -. John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet,