Milton
Subtitle: poet, pamphleteer, and patriot
By: Anna Beer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781596916784
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: English Poets; Biography; Political and social views; Politics and literature; History; Early modern; English poets; English literature
Description: A fresh account of the life, times, politics, loves, and letters of the great English poet. One of the world's great poets, author of the epic Paradise Lost as well as numerous other works, Milton was also deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time. Fully immersed in the new and rapidly changing print culture, Milton wrote a series of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and religious, political, and social rights that proposed a complete rethinking of the nature and practice not only of government, but of human freedom itself. Having put his pen at the service of Cromwell's new Commonwealth, when the Restoration came Milton was lucky to escape with his life. Blind by then, he persevered, creating the majestic works that made him immortal. Meanwhile, his personal life was as rich and complex as his professional one, and author Beer illuminates the whole.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I: The making of John Milton; title: The city, 1608; title: Cambridge, 1625; title: Misrule, 1628; title: Masque, 1634; title: Elegy, 1637; title: Italy, 1638; title: Damon, 1640; title: II: John Milton, Englishman; title: The church, 1641; title: Divorce, 1642; title: Censorship, 1644; title: Poems, 1645; title: Revolution, 1649; title: Government, 1651; title: Defence, 1654; title: Crisis, 1659; title: III: Poet and prophet; title: Defeat, 1660; title: Epic, 1667; title: Revelation, 1667; title: Resurgence, 1671; title: The city, 1674.