John Milton: his life, memorial and poetry

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Westminster Abbey

John Milton was a Stuart like no other. A civil servant under Oliver Cromwell, involved in the death of a king, advocator for the abolition of the Church of England, and even after going blind, a writer of epic poetry... <br />
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