num_pages: 693
description: "The Portable Milton" is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being.
language: English
title: The Portable Milton
titlecomplete: The Portable Milton (Portable Library)
genres: Fiction, Religion, Poetry, British Literature, 17th Century, Collections, Literature, Essays, Classics
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Penguin Books