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Poet of Revolution - The Making of John Milton (Hardcover)
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Poet of Revolution - The Making of John Milton (Hardcover)
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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 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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