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John Milton

1608 - 1674

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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. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Milton has received more than 5,993,621 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). John Milton is the 223rd most popular writer (down from 180th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 123rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Writer.

John Milton is most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

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  • 6.0M

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  • 71.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Milton ranks 223 out of 5,755. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi, Terry Pratchett, Peter Handke, Luís de Camões, Ray Bradbury, and Luigi Pirandello. After him are Peter Drucker, Johanna Spyri, Nikos Kazantzakis, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Maurice Leblanc, and Al-Masudi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1608, John Milton ranks 3. Before him are Evangelista Torricelli and Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Gaston, Duke of Orléans, Tukaram, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Ivan Vyhovsky, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Eudoxia Streshneva, António Vieira, and Pieter Post. Among people deceased in 1674, John Milton ranks 1. After him are Hyeonjong of Joseon, Philippe de Champaigne, Giacomo Carissimi, Jan Lievens, Nicolaes Tulp, Jean Chapelain, Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg, John Graunt, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Matthias Weckmann, and Leonaert Bramer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Milton ranks 169 out of 7,765. Before him are Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Eric Clapton (1945), Terry Pratchett (1948), Charlotte Rampling (1946), Jason Statham (1967), and Howard Carter (1874). After him are Brian Johnson (1947), Bernard Montgomery (1887), Edward the Elder (871), Keith Richards (1943), Francis Crick (1916), and Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Milton ranks 22. Before him are Aldous Huxley (1894), Emily Brontë (1818), Ian Fleming (1908), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), and Terry Pratchett (1948). After him are Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Anna Wintour (1949), J. K. Rowling (1965), Roald Dahl (1916), William Golding (1911), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792).

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