Poems Of John Milton
Author(s): John Milton
John Milton wrote some of the greatest poetry in the English language, filled with drama and energy. This selection celebrates some of the best of his verse in all its richness and variety, setting Milton's work against the arc of his turbulent life. It contains schoolboy writings and the verses of the university wit, sonnets on spring, and love.
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'Such an enjoyable book ... an admirable introduction to his work' The Times Higher Education Supplement
John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. By 1660, he was completely blind but continued to write. He died in 1674. Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. She is the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Austen. Her biography of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys (2002) won the the Samuel Pepys Award, and the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Claire Tomalin lives in London with her husband Michael Frayn.
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : UNKNOWN
- : 31 December 2015
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 112
- : 821.4
- : Paperback
- : John Milton