John Milton: A Hero of Our Time

by David Hawkes

Book Overview

John Milton -- poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost -- is revered today as a great writer and a proponent of free speech. In his time, however, his ideas far exceeded the orthodoxy of English life; spurred by his conscience and an iron grip on logic, Milton was uncompromising in his beliefs at a time of great religious and political flux in England. In John...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582437130
• ISBN13: 9781582437132
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"