Ebook: The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography, Revised Edition

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.

Content:
Chapter 1 “The Childhood Shews the Man” 1608–1625 (pages 1–14):
Chapter 2 “To Cambridge … for Seven Years” 1625–1632 (pages 15–52):
Chapter 3 “Studious Retirement”: Hammersmith and Horton 1632–1638 (pages 53–86):
Chapter 4 “I Became Desirous … of Seeing Foreign Parts, Especially Italy” 1638–1639 (pages 87–119):
Chapter 5 “All Mouths Were Opened Against … the Bishops” 1639–1642 (pages 120–152):
Chapter 6 “Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 (pages 154–197):
Chapter 7 “Service … Between Private Walls” 1645–1649 (pages 198–235):
Chapter 8 “The So?Called Council of State … Desired to Employ My Services” 1649–1652 (pages 236–277):
Chapter 9 “Tireless … for the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 (pages 278–318):
Chapter 10 “I … Still Bear Up and Steer Right Onward” 1654–1658 (pages 319–356):
Chapter 11 “The Last Words of Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 (pages 357–397):
Chapter 12 “In Darknes, and with Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 (pages 397–441):
Chapter 13 “Higher Argument”: Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost 1665–1669 (pages 442–488):
Chapter 14 “To Try, and Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 (pages 489–538):