McDowell, Nicholas <br/><br/>
Poet of revolution :   the making of John Milton / 

 - Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press,  2020 
 - 485 pages :    illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ;   25 cm 
<br/><br/> A biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas." Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691154695 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, English --Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography<br/>Political and social views.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR3581 .M33