After John Milton died in 1674, his widow sold all the rights to this work for a paltry 8 pounds
[DOC] [TLE] John Milton - Wikipedia [PAR] John Milton (9 December 1608  8 November 1674) was an English poet, 
polemicist, man of ... By the time of his death in 1674, Milton was impoverished 
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