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Hace 5 días · John Milton (1608–74) is considered the most significant English writer after William Shakespeare. His epic Paradise Lost, classical tragedy Samson Agonistes, and pastoral elegy Lycidas are widely regarded as the greatest poems of their kind in English. He is also known for such prose works as Areopagitica—a fierce defense of freedom of speech.
- Early Translations and Poems
John Milton - Poet, Paradise Lost, Sonnets: By the time he...
- Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost, epic poem in blank verse, one of the late...
- Samson Agonistes
Samson Agonistes. Like Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes...
- John Owen
John Owen (born 1616, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died...
- John Taylor
John Taylor (born Aug. 24, 1580, Gloucester,...
- John Donne’s
John Donne (born sometime between Jan. 24 and June 19, 1572,...
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (born Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near...
- Early Translations and Poems
Hace 1 día · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
Hace 2 días · John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Hace 4 días · King Lear, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1605–06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on Shakespeare’s unrevised working papers. The text of the First Folio of 1623 often differs markedly from the quarto text and seemingly represents a theatrical revision done by the author with ...
Hace 1 día · In 1608, the partnership also took over the Blackfriars indoor theatre. Extant records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments indicate that his association with the company made him a wealthy man, [53] and in 1597, he bought the second-largest house in Stratford, New Place , and in 1605, invested in a share of the parish tithes in Stratford.
Hace 1 día · Dare County, North Carolina, US. The establishment of the Roanoke Colony ( / ˈroʊənoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded in 1585, but it was visited by a ship in 1590 and the crew found that the colonists had disappeared under unknown ...
Hace 2 días · The population of the United Kingdom was estimated at almost 67.6 million people in 2022. It is the 21st most populated country in the world and has a population density of 279 people per square kilometre (720 people/sq mi), with England having significantly greater density than Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
