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1608-1639
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education, poetic apprenticeship
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1640-1660
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period of controversy
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1662-1674
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poetic years
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born when and where
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Dec. 9, 1608 on Bread Street, London
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Education:
1) where 2) date, where 3) date, where, what degree |
1) St. Paul's School
2) 1625: Christ's College Cambridge 3) 1632: M.A. Cum Laude at Cambridge |
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1625
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Christ's College Cambridge
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Charles I dissolves Parliament
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1627
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lends father-in-law Richard Powell 500 pounds
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1628
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Parliament reconvened
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1629
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"On the morning of Christ's nativity" composed
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Parliament dissolved again, rules personally until 1640
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1637
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"Lycidas" written in memory of his friend
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1638
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Tours western Europe: visist Galileo under house arrest?
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1639
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Returns home because of civil war, becomes a tutor
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Charles I invades Scotland
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1640
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Repossesses Richard Powell's land for non-payment of debt
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Long Parliament convened
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1642
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Marries Mary Powell, she leaves him a month later (royalist)
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Civil War breaks out between Royalist and Roundheads
BATTLE OF EDGE HILL Oct. 23 (Roundheads lose) |
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1643
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Doctrine of Discipline of Divorce published
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1644
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Areopagitica published
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July 2 BATTLE OF MARSTON MOOR; Oliver Cromwell defeats Prince Rupert
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1645
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makes plans to remarry, but Mary Powell returns
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June 14. BATTLE OF NASEBY
Roundheads defeat Royalists |
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1649
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Becomes secretary for foreign tongues, defend England's decision to execute king
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Jan 30. Public execution of Charles 1. Commonwealth established
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1652
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Becomes blind from glaucoma. Wife Mary dies in childbirth
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1653
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writes a letter recommending Andrew Marvell become his assistant
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Cromwell reluctantly becomes Lord Protector
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1656
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Marries Katherine Woodcock
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1658
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Woodcock dies
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Cromwell dies
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1660
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Milton arrested and released
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Restoration of King Charles II by Parliament
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1663
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Marries Elizabeth Minshull. she is attentive to his needs, but she and his daughters didn't get along, much domestic upset
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1666
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Great Fire of London
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1667
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Paradise Lost published in 10 books
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1671
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Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes published together
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1674
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2nd edition of Paradise Lost published, 12 books, w/ poems by Andrew Marvell
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Nov 8, 1674
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Dies of gout, buried in the church of St. Giles
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