The Beatles were one of the most successful and influential rock bands of the 20th century. The group was formed by the "Fab Four": John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals), and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). From Liverpool to Global Domination Formed in Liverpool in 1960, they dominated the British and international charts from 1962 to 1970. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity sparked a global phenomenon known as "Beatlemania." As their music grew in sophistication—led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney—the band evolved from pop idols into the embodiment of the 1960s counterculture. They experimented with psychedelia, Indian classical music, and studio techniques that changed the face of the recording industry forever. A Prolific Legacy The Beatles wrote over 200 songs (including 186 original compositions released during their active years). Their catalog includes timeless mast...
John Milton was born into a Protestant family in London.
He went to St. Paul's School then to Cambridge where he took his Master of Arts degree in 1632.
He was in Italy in 1639 before the Civil war broke out.
He returned to England to support the Puritan cause and in 1649 became Latin secretary to the Cromwell's Council of State.
With the fall of the Commonwealth, Milton retired from public life and wrote the greatest epic poem of the Renaissance: Paradise lost.
This poem is based on the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
In this poem there is a fusion of classical themes and Christian doctrine, according to the Humanism.
Paradise lost was written "to justify the ways of God to men", in order to make clear in their justness.
Milton admires man's free will, but he criticizes one of the biggest man's sins : the pride.
In fact, it's this sin that causes Satan's fall.
The author analyses, through soliloquies, the behaviour of several characters.
Milton gives Satan the rhetorical voice of a leader who has lost everything, except his self-esteem.
For this reason, according to Romantics, he is considered a dark solitary hero.
Some of Milton's prose writings had a direct relation to his life such as The doctrine and discipline of divorce.
Other works treat political events such as the introduction of book censorship in England in Areopagitica.
He died in 1674.

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