Milton
Blind English poet
Milton is most commonly encountered as a surname or given name, notably that of the English poet John Milton, author of *Paradise Lost*.
The name has become attached to various places, particularly towns in the United States and United Kingdom.
As a cultural reference, Milton often evokes classical literary tradition or Protestant religious themes, given the poet's lasting influence on English literature.
We're reading Milton in my literature class.
Epic of humanity's expulsion
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- SatanJudeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
- EdenScriptural original paradise
blindness · Puritan · seventeenth century · theodicy · English literature · Cromwell · prose · sonnets
Personal name from birth
- surnameHereditary family identifier
- BradleyEnglish given name
- FriedmanInfluential free-market economist
- HersheyMajor chocolate manufacturer
masculine · family name · namesake · middle name · personal name
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- OntarioCanada's most populous province
- FloridaSoutheastern American peninsula state
- PennsylvaniaNortheastern founding colony state
West Virginia · Delaware · Georgia · town · borough · village · township · municipality
Paradise Lost
Epic of humanity's expulsion
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- SatanJudeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
Eden · blindness · Puritan · seventeenth century · theodicy · English literature · Cromwell · prose · sonnets · classical
given name
Personal name from birth
- surnameHereditary family identifier
- BradleyEnglish given name
- FriedmanInfluential free-market economist
Hershey · masculine · family name · namesake · middle name · personal name
Keynes
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- OntarioCanada's most populous province
- FloridaSoutheastern American peninsula state
Pennsylvania · West Virginia · Delaware · Georgia · town · borough · village · township · municipality · suburb
- -ton namesDalton, Easton, Weston, Colton, Preston
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- Old-Fashioned NamesMildred, Gertrude, Ethel, Edna, Bertha
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
- Baroque Era FiguresDescartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hobbes
- British M AuthorsA.A. Milne, Milne, Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe, Maugham
MiltonRobert Burns
Scottish national poet
William Blake · Charles Bukowski · Dorothy Parker · Ogden Nash · Shakespeare
MiltonBoccaccio
Italian prose master
Ovid · Rochester · Marquis de Sade · Henry Miller · D.H. Lawrence
MiltonKeynes
John Maynard Keynes · Paul Krugman · Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels · democratic socialists