John Milton began his writing career - shortly after his first wife left him a month after their marriage - by writing a series of pamphlets arguing for the legality of divorce. He wrote expressly for the Puritan cause until glaucoma and eye stress resulted in blindness. After this, he turned entirely to poetry, writing the famous "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained." His works are very clearly influenced by many books of the bible, as well as by Homer and Virgil. Many of his works were, during the 18th and 19th centuries, considered to be better than Shakespeare.

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• Paradise Lost

• Paradise Regained