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I'm a freelance Web content writer with a published eBook on Milton's Paradise Lost. I studied under the foremost Milton scholar, Dr. Albert Labriola, when he taught at Duquesne University.
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Milton, by the time he wrote "Paradise Lost, was blind and out of favor in the political atmosphere, having been Oliver Cromwell's secretary up to his death in 1658, the same year he began his epic...