| Description |
xiii, 488 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. 1608-1632. -- Childhood -- St. Paul's School -- Cambridge: the undergraduate years -- Cambridge: the postgraduate years -- pt. 2. 1632-1639. -- Hammersmith -- Horton -- Italy -- pt. 3. 1639-1649. -- The crisis of government -- The first civil war -- The road to regicide -- pt. 4. 1649-1660. -- The purged Parliament -- The Protectorate -- From the death of Oliver Cromwell to the Restoration -- pt. 5. 1660-1674. -- Milton in 1660 -- Surviving the Restoration -- Plague, fire, and Paradise Lost -- The sunlit uplands -- pt. 6. 1674 and after. -- Posthumous life and Nachlass. |
| Summary |
Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in English history. |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
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Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
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| Added Author |
Corns, Thomas N.
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| ISBN |
9780199289844 (hbk.) |
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0199289840 (hbk.) |
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