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A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost , the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton's literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost —but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's...

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Author

Nicholas McDowell

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691215341

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, English, Irish, & Scottish Poetry, Humanities