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John Milton : a biography / Neil Forsyth.
- Title
- John Milton : a biography / Neil Forsyth.
- Author
- Forsyth, Neil, 1944-
- Publication
- Oxford : Lion, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR3581 .F67 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 254 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- John Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of Charles II his life was probably saved by his fame as a poet. He was thrice married, his first two wives dying after childbirth. This serious yet accessible biography by a renowed Milton scholar tells the story of Milton's fascinating and troubled life on both the personal and political level.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographie.
- Biographies
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-244) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : blind love -- St. Paul's -- Cambridge -- Early signs of genius -- Studious retirement -- Coping with death : 'Lycidas' -- Foreign parts -- No bishop, no king -- Mary Powell -- Civil war -- New houses, and a family -- Rudest violence -- Image breaking -- Blindness -- Cromwell protector -- A long argument to prove that god is not the devil -- Expiring liberty -- With dangers compast round -- Plague, and Paradise lost -- Fire and war -- Adam, Eve -- and Satan -- Milton's womb : chaos, hell and the ribs of gold -- Emptying the desk -- Paradise regained -- Final accomplishment -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780745953106 (pbk.)
- 0745953107 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 233788255
- SCSB-10722085
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library