The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seenhere as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers of the time and author of the most influential narrative poem in English. INDICE: Introduction; Part I 1608-1632; 1: Childhood; 2: St Paul's School; 3: Cambridge: the undergraduate years; 4: Cambridge: the postgraduate years; Part II 1632-1639; 5: Hammersmith; 6: Horton; 7: Italy; Part III 1639-49; 8: The Crisis of Government; 9: The First Civil War; 10: The Road to Regicide; Part IV 1649-1660; 11: The Purged Parliament; 12: The Protectorate; 13: From the Death of Oliver Cromwell to the Restoration; Part V 1660-67; 14: Milton in 1660; 15: Surviving the Restoration; 16: Plague, Fire and Paradise Lost; 17: The Sunlit Uplands; Part VI 1667 and after; 18: Posthumous Life and Nachlass; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959103-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 512
- Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés