Publisher | Penguin Classics; Paperbound ed. edition |
ISBN 13 | 9780140150445 |
ISBN 10 | 0140150447 |
Author | John Milton |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel |
About the Author | John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674. |
Publication Date | 1976-08-26 |
Number of Pages | 704 pages |
The Portable Milton