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The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography
Barbara K. Lewalski
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Description for The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography
Hardback. Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. * Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 816 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1328.
Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.
Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.
- Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works.
- Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an 'author'.
- Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
816
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Critical Biographies
Number of Pages
812
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631176657
SKU
V9780631176657
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About Barbara K. Lewalski
Barbara Lewalski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Harvard University. She has been named honored scholar by the Milton Society of America, and has served as President of that organization and of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her numerous publications ... Read more
Reviews for The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography
"Lewalski's is easily the best single-volume life of Milton to date, and it is hard to imagine its being significantly bettered. Every reader will benefit from its insight and compression, and it will be the biography to which I direct my students." Times Higher Education Supplement "Arguably the most readable of modern Milton biographies, it reshapes ... Read more