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The 22 pages that link to John Milton, each with the reason it gives.

• Freedom of the pressRelated: Areopagitica became a lasting argument against licensing the press.

• Freedom of expressionRelated: His writings helped shape later arguments against restrictions on publication.

• Blank verseRelated: Milton defended unrhymed verse and gave blank verse a monumental poetic scale.

• Prior restraintRelated: His 1644 pamphlet became a landmark argument against licensing books before publication.

• King James VersionRelated: His writing shows how the KJV’s diction entered English literary culture.

• Paradise LostRelated: His political commitments and poetic ambitions shaped the poem’s treatment of liberty and authority.

• Restoration literatureRelated: His late poetry connects Restoration writing to earlier republican and Puritan debates.

• Edmund SpenserRelated: Milton admired Spenser and inherited his fusion of Protestant purpose and epic ambition.

• Epic simileRelated: His epic similes adapt classical elaboration to Christian and English poetic subjects.

• Henry OldenburgRelated: Before becoming secretary, Oldenburg worked as a tutor in Milton’s household.

• The LusiadsRelated: Fanshawe’s translation appeared in the same literary world that later produced Milton’s epics.

• The NightmareRelated: Fuseli’s literary interests and Miltonic imagery helped shape his supernatural subjects.

• Andrew MarvellRelated: Marvell worked with Milton as an assistant Latin secretary in the Commonwealth government.

• Christian literatureRelated: His epic transformed biblical material into a landmark poem in English.

• DidacticismRelated: He described poetry as a means to teach and move readers toward moral understanding.

• Abraham CowleyRelated: Milton and Cowley became prominent poets amid the political upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century.

• Philip PullmanRelated: Milton’s epic poem supplied Pullman with a major source for His Dark Materials.

• Christopher SmartRelated: Milton’s scriptural ambition provides a major precedent for Smart’s religious poetry.

• John Keats's 1819 odesRelated: Milton’s blank verse and elevated poetic style formed part of Keats’s literary inheritance.