F1123.D: Introduction to Literary Study: British Literature
Summer 2000
H. Blurton
Chronology for John Milton, Paradise Lost
1608
1625 - 1632
1632
1634
1637
1638
1640
1641
1642
1643
1644
1646
1649
1652
1654
1658
1659
1660
1667
1670
1671
1673
1674
Milton born December 9
Christ College, Cambridge
First published poem (published anonymously): On
Shakespeare in the second folio
A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus)
performed
Irish uprising and Scottish invasion
Lycidas
Long Parliament convened
First political tracts: Of Reformation, Of Prelatical
Episcopacy, Animadversions upon the
Remonstrant’s Defence against Smectymnuus
Civil War
Reason of Church Government, Apology for
Smectymnuus
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Areopagitica
Poems of Mr. J. Milton
Charles I executed
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,
Eikonoklastes
Milton appointed Secretary for Foreign Tongues by
the Council of State
Milton becomes totally blind
Cromwell becomes Protector
Death of Cromwell
A Treatise of Civil Power, Consideration Touching
the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the
Church
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free
Commonwealth
Charles II enters London
Milton is arrested and imprisoned for seven months
Paradise Lost first published in ten books
The History of Britain published
Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes
Poems (revised and enlarged), Of True Religion
Paradise Lost published in twelve books
Milton dies November 8