Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-461) and index.
Contents:
Pt. V. London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42. Pt. II. Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625-9 -- Pt. III. Cambridge and Hammersmith, 1629-35 -- Pt. IV. Horton and Italy, 1635-9 -- Pt. V. London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42.
Summary:
A biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas." Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.
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