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MILTON largely of pamphlets, which appeared on subjects which were in dispute either in church or state. His famous Areopagitica, written in favor of free speech, was called forth by a threat of prosecution for publishing his tracts on Divorce. These had been written in 1643, when his wife, after a few weeks of married life, had gone home and refused to return to him. There is much evidence that the pair were little suited to each other and that the austere life of the Puritan home proved very cheerless to the young girl brought up in gay royalist circles. She returned to him in 1645. Cromwell rewarded Milton for his political papers with the office of secretary of foreign tongues, where his duty was to carry on the foreign correspondence of the government in Latin, the language used by the Commonwealth. He was better fitted for the position than anyone in England, and held it until the restoration of the monarchy. He lived in concealment after the accession of Charles II, until placed in safety by the act of indemnity. His eyesight failed entirely in 1654, and all his later work was written by another hand, usually one of his three daughters, who also spent many hours in reading to him in Latin and Greek, neither of which languages they understood. After more than 20 years of silence as a poet, Milton sent forth his great Paradise Lost, finished in 1663 and published in 1667. He received $25 for the copyright, with a promise of the same amount with the sale of the first 1,300 copies of each edition. He received the second and third payments, and in 1681 his widow yielded her rights in the book for $40. Thirteen hundred copies were sold in 20 months, which, considering the age and the

lack of reviews and other modern means of making a book known, gives some idea of Milton's rank as a poet among his own people. Paradise Regained was written at the suggestion of a Quaker friend, who intimated that Satan is the main hero of Paradise Lost. Samson Agonistes is the poem of his old age. His home-life seems never to have been peaceful until his third marriage, when his daughters left his home, but his last years were passed in cheerful retirement, solaced with music and friends. He died in London, Nov. 8, 1674, already acknowledged to be the first poet of his age and country. See Life by Masson; Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Trent's John Milton; and Life by Mark Pattison, in the English Men of Letters Series.

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