{"product_id":"poet-of-revolution-9780691241739","title":"Poet of Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Laudably cool-headed. . . . McDowell manages to shine new light even on some of the best-trodden territory. . . . [A] tour de force.\"\u003cb\u003e---Roberta Klimt, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A terrific work of scholarship.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jonathan Bate, \u003ci\u003eCatholic Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[McDowell] transforms our understanding of Milton’s emergent worldview with intelligence, authority and considerable flair. . . . \u003ci\u003ePoet of Revolution \u003c\/i\u003ewill be the standard account of its subject, and the starting point for further discussion of Milton’s early life, for a long time to come\"\u003cb\u003e---Rhodri Lewis, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[For McDowell] the crucial question is the one that has defined and divided Milton scholarship from the beginning, the question of politics. . . . We need not wonder why Milton becomes a radical, [McDowell] suggest[s], for Milton himself tells us why: the poet made the polemicist and the writer the revolutionary.\"\u003cb\u003e---Catherine Nicholson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McDowell’s erudite\u003ci\u003e Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton \u003c\/i\u003ehelps us understand why and how Milton pursued poetic glory. . . . [He] skillfully integrates Milton’s literary world with his dangerous, complex, and rapidly changing world of religion and politics.\"\u003cb\u003e---A. M. Juster, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written. . . . A wonderful book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Joad Raymond, \u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an important work, possibly the most significant contribution to Milton studies in more than a decade.\"\u003cb\u003e---Geoff Ridden, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Erudite, engaged, original, and illuminating.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Hammond, \u003ci\u003eSeventeenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This new book by Nicholas McDowell is superior to anything that I’ve yet read.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Lay, \u003ci\u003eFiveBooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of my favorite non-fiction works this year. . . . Every page is enjoyable.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tyler Cowen, \u003ci\u003eMarginal Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] magnificent intellectual biography.\"\u003cb\u003e---Daniel Johnson, \u003ci\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McDowell’s new study, \u003ci\u003ePoet of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, tries to account for Milton’s transformation from ‘obscure student poet in the early 1630s, albeit one with grand Virgilian pretensions, to a leading oppositional prose polemicist as civil war broke out a decade later.'\"\u003cb\u003e---Maggie Kilgour, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] tour-de-force pilgrimage through Milton's formative years. . . . \u003ci\u003ePoet of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a heroic work, a judicious and well-written biography of England's greatest poet.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Krause, \u003ci\u003eMerion West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One cannot do justice to McDowell’s achievement in this limited space. . . . Every page is rich in valuable information about Milton. . . . [A] major, innovative contribution to Milton studies.\" * Choice Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] very ambitious and rewarding book. Any student of 17th-century history will learn a great deal from it.\"\u003cb\u003e---Pranav Jain, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Ideas Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich and detailed account of Milton's 'intellectual and political formation.' . . . [McDowell] brings Milton alive for readers, describing his material life, where he lived and travelled, what he read and puzzled over, and whom he engaged with at school and abroad.\"\u003cb\u003e---Amy Gais, \u003ci\u003eReview of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eAs he chronicles the life of this cautious figure, McDowell . . . offers some of the most comprehensive\u003cbr\u003eaccounts of Milton's early works to appear in a biography, or perhaps anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---Blaine Greteman, \u003ci\u003eMilton Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865554071895,"sku":"9780691241739","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691241739.jpg?v=1722274534","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poet-of-revolution-9780691241739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}