This power point shows you a detail way comparative study between Milton and Dante ,these both imagination were compared .

1. JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
The historical background 1630-60, Early life , Milton’s unknown ,Comparative study of
Paradise lost , and Inferno .

2. THE HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND1630-60
Civil war
In 1649, Charles I was execution by Oliver
Cromwell
England under the control of The common
wealth period

3. He has generally been
considered to be second only to
that of Shakespeare .
Londoner ,son of Money
Scrivener
Family Rifts
Education
John Milton 1608-1674

4. FOUND OF LATIN
He learned latin, Greek, Hebrew and then he himself
learned french, and Italian .He read recent English poets ,
such as Spenser and Sidney .
As a school boy he was already writing poetry in both latin
and English , and declared his ambition to write a poem on
the creation .
During those time he wrote a good deal of verse, mostly in
latin .
why lady of Christ ?
L Allegro , IL Renseroso , Comus , and Lycidas

5. POLITICS
1638-9 Travels to Italy ,there he meat Galileo Galilee
1639 back to London
When the common wheat reign started he was return back to
London
in 1649, after the execution of the king he was appointed by the
common wealth government secretary for foreign tongues .
In 1658 , Cromwell’s government was fell apart
In 1660 , Charles II made all the puritans away

6. ON HIS BLINDNESS
On that Milton’s Pamphlet “The ready and easy
way to establish a free Common Wealth .
Big danger ,Defensio pro porulo Anglican were
called in and publicly burnt; but wheather
because of his blindness .
On his blindness ,Paradise lost, Paradise
regained and Samson Agonists .

7. CAMPARATIVE
LITERATURE

8. Dante Algeri (1265-1321)
Chaucer of Italy
Durante degli Alighieri

9. VOCABULARIES
• Dante Milton
• Inferno (Hell)
Pandemonium
• Purgatorio purgatory
• Paradisio paradise
• Terrestrial Paradise Eden of
Garden

10. Milton’s Satan Dante’s Satan
• God’s eternal justice
• At first he is a fallen
angel; then he takes
the form of a snake
• Hell, below chaos
• Punishment
• Monster: three headed
winged creature
• The City of Dis, the
lowest circle of Hell

11. Milton’s
Paradise lost
Dante’s Inferno (Hell)

12. Nine spheres of hell
http://historylists.org/art/9-circles-of-hell-dantes-inferno.html

14. MYTHICAL BEAST
Dante’s Mythological beasts
Beast form book of job used by Milton in PL book7

17. THANK YOU