Thomas N. Corns
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 546
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of John Milton.
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Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in English history. A more human Milton appears in these pages, a Milton who is flawed, self-contradictory, self-serving, arrogant,...