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The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography
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The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography Paperback - 2002

by Barbara K. Lewalski

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Wiley-Blackwell, November 2002. Paperback. USED Fair. Some underlining and highlighting. Binding broken in, but the binding is sewn, so the pages are safe.
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  • Title The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography
  • Author Barbara K. Lewalski
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition USED Fair
  • Pages 816
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, Massachusetts
  • Date November 2002
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 568121
  • ISBN 9781405106252 / 1405106255
  • Weight 2.53 lbs (1.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6 x 1.68 in (22.76 x 15.24 x 4.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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First line

Milton's childhood and schooldays turned out to be a fortunate seedplot for a budding poet.

From the rear cover

John Milton's many and various works include magnificent poems, polemics, history, theology, and treatises on political, ecclesiastical, educational, and social issues. No writer before Milton defined himself so self-consciously as an author - both in prose and in poetry - as his God-given vocation.

In her detailed account of Milton's life and career, Barbara Lewalski provides a close analysis of his prose and poetry, focusing on the development of his ideas and his art. She shows how Milton, even as a young poet, constructed himself as a new kind of author, commanding astonishing resources of learning and artistry to develop a radical politics, reformist poetics, and an inherently revolutionary prophetic voice.

This insightful portrayal of Milton's life, thought, and writing, as well as his contribution to public life, is an important, stimulating, and timely contribution to Milton scholarship.

About the author

Barbara Lewalski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Harvard University. She has been named honored scholar by the Milton Society of America, and has served as President of that organization and of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her numerous publications include Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of "Paradise Regained" (1966), Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric (1979, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association), Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985), Writing Women in Jacobean England (1993), and The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (editor, 1996).