John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

by Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns

Book Overview

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex story emerges, of Milton's culturally rich but ideologically conformist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199289840
• ISBN13: 9780199289844
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 9.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent biography

Though not a Milton scholar, I do appreciate this biography's up-to-date scholarly apparatus--one could follow those notes for years--and attention to detail. But the plus is that the book is well written from a narrative standpoint. This is a satisfying work for anyone who loves Milton's poetry and wants to know something about the life and the world that produced it.