John Milton (9 desimber 1608 – 8 novimber 1674) wie in Ingelsk dichter, skriuwer, polemikus en boarger yn tsjinst fan de Commonwealth. Hy is ferneamd fanwege syn epysk gedicht 'It ferlerne Paradys' en fan syn traktaat, dêr't er sinsuer yn feroardielet: Areopagitica.
Hy jildt as ien fan de wichtichste skriuwers út de Ingelske literatuerskiednis. Milton wie in foaroanman yn de Puriteinske beweging en minister foar frjemde talen yn it regear fan Oliver Cromwell. Hy skreau tal fan pamfletten om it Puritanisme en Cromwell syn regier te stypjen.
Milton waard blyn; dêr hat er it sonnet On his Blindness ('Oer syn blinens') oer skreaun.
Milton waard bot beynfloede troch epyske dichters lykas de Romeinske dichter Vergilius, Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer en Edmund Spenser. Paradise Lost is it lêste grutte epyske gedicht yn de Ingelske poëzy.
Drama en poëtysk wurk
- L'Allegro (1631)
- Il Penseroso (1631)
- Comus (yn maskerade) (1634)
- Lycidas (1638)
- Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin (1645)
- Paradise Lost (1667)
Fryske oersetting: It Paradys Ferlern (fert. Geart fan der Mear, 2009)
- Paradise Regained (1671)
- Samson Agonistes (1671)
- Poems, &c, Upon Several Occasions (1673)
Politike, filosofyske en religieuze proaza
- Of Reformation (1641)
- Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641)
- Animadversions (1641)
- The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty (1642)
- Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
- Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)
- Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce (1644)
- Of Education (1644)
- Areopagitica (1644)
- Tetrachordon (1645)
- Colasterion (1645)
- The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
- Eikonoklastes (1649)
- Defensio pro Populo Anglicano (1651)
- Defensio Secunda (1654)
- A treatise of Civil Power (1659)
- The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church (1659)
- The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660)
- Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon (1660)
- Accedence Commenced Grammar (1669)
- History of Britain (1670)
- Artis logicae plenior institutio (1672)
- Of True Religion (1673)
- Epistolae Familiaries (1674)
- Prolusiones (1674)
- A brief History of Moscovia, and other less known Countries lying Eastward of Russia as far as Cathay, gathered from the writings of several Eye-witnesses (1682)
- De Doctrina Christiana (1823)