03231nam 2200661 a 450 991078274040332120230721004902.01-383-04363-91-281-98547-397866119854790-19-155853-2(CKB)1000000000707814(EBL)415458(OCoLC)476242544(SSID)ssj0000300853(PQKBManifestationID)11238555(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300853(PQKBWorkID)10260811(PQKB)11380723(SSID)ssj0001146345(PQKBManifestationID)12500291(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001146345(PQKBWorkID)11124668(PQKB)11493615(Au-PeEL)EBL415458(CaPaEBR)ebr10288465(CaONFJC)MIL198547(MiAaPQ)EBC415458(EXLCZ)99100000000070781420081104d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Milton[electronic resource] life, work, and thought /Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. CornsOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (505 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-959103-2 0-19-928984-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [446]-472) and index.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.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 isPoets, EnglishEarly modern, 1500-1700BiographyGreat BritainHistoryStuarts, 1603-1714Poets, English821.4BCampbell Gordon1944-166583Corns Thomas N546194MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782740403321John Milton3723747UNINA