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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454286703321

Autore

Campbell Gordon <1944->

Titolo

John Milton [[electronic resource] ] : life, work, and thought / / Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-98547-3

9786611985479

0-19-155853-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CornsThomas N

Disciplina

821.4

B

Soggetti

Poets, English - Early modern, 1500-1700

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [446]-472) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- PART 1. 1608-1632. -- 1. Childhood -- 2. St. Paul's School -- 3. Cambridge: the undergraduate years -- 4. Cambridge: the postgraduate years -- PART 2. 1632-1639. -- 5. Hammersmith -- 6. Horton -- 7. Italy -- PART 3. 1639-1649. -- 8. The crisis of government -- 9. The first civil war -- 10. The road to regicide -- PART 4. 1649-1660. -- 11, The purged Parliament -- 12. The Protectorate -- 13. From the death of Oliver Cromwell to the Restoration -- PART 5. 1660-1674. -- 14. Milton in 1660 -- 15. Surviving the Restoration -- 16. Plague, fire, and Paradise Lost -- 17. The sunlit uplands -- PART 6. 1674 and after. -- 18. Posthumous life and Nachlass.

Sommario/riassunto

The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers of the time and author of the most influential narrative poem in English. - ;This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in



seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is