# John Milton — Essays character guide

> John Milton in Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-self-reliance

## Who they are

English poet and intellectual, author of 'Paradise Lost'.

## In the story

### [Self-Reliance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emerson_essays_se/chapters/self-reliance)

Praised for setting at naught books and traditions to speak his own convictions.

### [Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/emerson_essays_se/chapters/love)

Named alongside Petrarch and Michelangelo as a later teacher of the same eternal doctrine of love that transcends the sensual.

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