TY  - BOOK
AU  -  McDowell,Nicholas
TI  - Poet of revolution: the making of John Milton 
SN  - 9780691154695
AV  - PR3581 .M33 
PY  - 2020///
CY  -  Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - Biography
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Political and social views
N2  - 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
ER  -