Poet of revolution: the making of John Milton

A biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public wr...

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1. Verfasser: McDowell, Nicholas 1973- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:A biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton’s best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L’Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas." Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton’s astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece
Beschreibung:xvi, 485 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780691154695

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