The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

The Life of John Milton A Critical Biography Revised Edition Barbara Kiefer Lewalski ...

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The Life of John Milton ...

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The Life of John Milton A Critical Biography Revised Edition Barbara Kiefer Lewalski ...

BLACKWELL CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES General Editor: Claude Rawson This acclaimed series offers informative and durable biographies of ...

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Contents List of Plates viii Preface x Acknowledgments xiv List of Abbreviations xvi 1 “The Childhood Shews the Man” 1608–1625 1 ...

Preface viii Plates 1 Milton, age ten. Artist unknown. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. 2 Christ’s College in about 1688, ...

ix Preface 15 Title page, Paradise Lost, 1667. With permission from the Houghton Library, Harvard University. 16 William Faithor ...

Preface x Preface More than two centuries ago Samuel Johnson pronounced categorically, as was his wont, that “Nobody can write t ...

xi Preface the endlessly proliferating meanings that can be found in Milton’s texts and on the uncertain dating of many of his w ...

Preface xii A new Milton biography has especially the challenge and the opportunity to re- think his life in a new interpretativ ...

xiii Preface construct himself as a new kind of author, one who commands all the resources of learning and art but links them to ...

Preface xiv Acknowledgments I cannot begin to indicate, let alone properly thank, all the scholars, past and present, whose writ ...

xv Preface gestions, and enthusiastic response at several stages, and the copy-editor Jack Mes- senger, who tidied up many loose ...

Preface xvi Abbreviations AV The Holy Bible, 1611 (Authorized Version) BL The British Library Carey John Carey, ed., John Milton ...

xvii Preface Sprott John Milton: A Maske. The Earlier Versions, ed. S. E. Sprott SR 1554–1640 Stationers Registers, 1554–1640, e ...

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