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The life of John Milton : a critical biography

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. * Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works.
eBook, English, 2003
Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2003
Biography
1 online resource (xvii, 777 Seiten).
9780470775677, 9780470776841, 047077567X, 0470776846
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List of Plates. Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. 1. 'The childhood shews the man" (1608-1625). 2. "To Cambridge ... for seven years" (1625-1632). 3. "Studious Retirement": Hammersmith and Horton (1632-1638). 4. "I became desirous ... of seeing foreign parts, especially Italy" (1638-1639). 5. "All mouths were opened against ... the bishops" (1639-1642). 6. "Domestic or Personal Liberty" (1642-1645). 7. "Service ... Between Private Walls" (1645-1649). 8. "The so-called Council of State ... desired to employ my services" (1649- 1652). 9. "Tireless ... for the sake of Liberty" (1652-1654). 10. "I ... still bear up and steer/ Right onward" (1654-1658). 11 "The last words of our expiring libertie" (1658-1660). 12 "In darknes, and with dangers compast round" (1660-1665). 13. "Higher Argument": Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost (1665-1669). 14. "To try, and teach the erring Soul" (1669-1674). Epilogue: "Something ... Written to Aftertimes.". Notes. Bibliography. Index.