John Milton : life, work, and thought / Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Gordon, 1944- author.

Corns, Thomas N., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Milton, John.

Poets, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.

Poets, English.

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This biography of Milton is based on 40 years of original research, and takes account of new thinking about 17th-century England. He 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-472) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04363-9

1-281-98547-3

9786611985479

0-19-155853-2

OCLC:

476242544