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wrote "Paradise Lost"

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wrote "Paradise Lost"

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Milton

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relatives helped finance his education; worked for Sir Temple

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Swift

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born in London to a middle-class family

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Milton

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ran a small parish in 1699

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Swift

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father was a scribe/musician

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Milton

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born in Dublin, Ireland to English parents

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Swift

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Three Main Arguments in "Areopagitica"

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books are not dead things (they contain the potency of life); to suppress a good book is similar to killing a good person studying is great for spiritual creation (bad books cannot corrupt a good person, but a good book cannot restore a bad person); we are called to find the good truth censorship is imperfect therefore useless; protecting people from books will not protect them from evil

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wrote anonymous satires

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Swift

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wrote prose and pamphlets

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Milton

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most famous work was "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726

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Swift

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wrote most poems in Latin

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Milton

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attended Cambridge University; called himself "God's poet"

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Milton

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wrote "A Modest Proposal"

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Swift

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served as a dean in Dublin for over 30 years (St. Patrick's)

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Swift

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wrote "Lycidas"

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Milton

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What is the greatest epic in English literature?

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Paradise Lost

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greatest prose satirist

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Swift

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became blind in 1649

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Milton

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