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John Milton
English poet and intellectual, author of 'Paradise Lost'.
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First appearance: Self-Reliance
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Praised for setting at naught books and traditions to speak his own convictions.
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In Self-Reliance: Praised for setting at naught books and traditions to speak his own convictions. Later, in Love: Named alongside Petrarch and Michelangelo as a later teacher of the same eternal doctrine of love that…
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