{"product_id":"the-life-of-john-milton-9780631176657","title":"The Life of John Milton","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProviding 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a close analysis of each of Milton''s prose and poetry works.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an ''author''.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the development of Milton''s ideas and his art.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lewalski's is easily the best single-volume life of Milton to date, and it is hard to imagine its being significantly bettered. Every reader will benefit from its insight and compression, and it will be the biography to which I direct my students.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Arguably the most readable of modern Milton biographies, it reshapes our understanding of Milton the man, the thinker, political and religious activist, husband, parent, friend ...it is certain to be a classic among Milton studies\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Life of John Milton\u003c\/i\u003e . . . combines lucidity with its formidable erudition.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerry Eagleton, The Observer Books of the Year, 2001\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A rigorous, up-to-date, yet surprisingly readable account of Milton's life and work… anyone concerned with the poet or the period will have to possess this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[Lewalski] has produced an outstanding biography, one that is reliable and readable. [...] It will be vaulable, not only to Milton specialists and students of English literature but to anyone who wants to learn about Milton's life and work.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lewalski's volume is immensely useful. In the process of discussing Milton's life and works, she gives the reader a believable figure facing major events and also the everyday business of moving through life. Such an appealing and readbale portrayal is welcome.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As a biography of Milton, Lewalski's \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e is likely to remain the definitive work for decades to come.\" \u003ci\u003eChurch Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Life of John Milton\u003c\/i\u003e is the \u003ci\u003emagnum opus\u003c\/i\u003e of Barbara K Lewalski, one of the leading Miltonists of the past half-century. [...] As an introduction to Milton's life and work it is likely to remain unequalled for years to come - that rare thing, a work of reference to be read with profit and pleasure from cover to cover.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMLR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Her achievements scarcely need endorsement. Unsurprising, she once more surefootedly picks her way through the polemical prose while writing richly about the major poetry.\" \u003ci\u003eMilton Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Plates. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. ‘The childhood shews the man\" (1608-1625).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. \"To Cambridge . . . for seven years\" (1625-1632).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"Studious Retirement\": Hammersmith and Horton (1632-1638).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \"I became desirous . . . of seeing foreign parts, especially Italy\" (1638-1639).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. \"All mouths were opened against . . . the bishops\" (1639-1642).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. \"Domestic or Personal Liberty\" (1642-1645).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. \"Service . . . Between Private Walls\" (1645-1649).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. \"The so-called Council of State . . . desired to employ my services\" (1649- 1652).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. \"Tireless . . . for the sake of Liberty\" (1652-1654).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \"I . . . still bear up and steer\/ Right onward\" (1654-1658).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 \"The last words of our expiring libertie\" (1658-1660).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 \"In darknes, and with dangers compast round\" (1660-1665).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. \"Higher Argument\": Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost (1665-1669).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. \"To try, and teach the erring Soul\" (1669-1674).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: \"Something ... Written to Aftertimes.\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359082021207,"sku":"9780631176657","price":97.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631176657.jpg?v=1754123508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-life-of-john-milton-9780631176657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}