![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, February 12, 1625. His version of the 136th Psalm, beginning with “Let us, with a gladsome mind, / Praise the Lord, for he is kind,” dates back to 1624, when he was only fifteen years of age. It is not strange, therefore, that, with an organ in the house, in almost constant use by the father, the boy should have obtained considerable culture in this direction. In Ravenscroft’s Psalter, 1621, John Milton, senior, appears as the harmonizer of the good old psalm tunes, York and Norwich. A taste for poetry and music was inherited from his father, who was himself a musical composer. ![]() Every advantage of education was given him-a tutor at home, and a place in St. He was a boy of fine promise, and the pride of the house. John was the third of six children, three of whom died in infancy-an elder sister and a younger brother, Christopher, surviving. His father was a scrivener, of good repute, and well-to-do in his worldly estate. The house in which he first saw the light was but three doors south of Cheapside in Bread Street, at the sign of the Spread Eagle, almost under the eaves of old Bow Church. ENGLAND’S GREAT EPIC POET was born appropriately in the very heart of old London. ![]()
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