The life of John Milton : a critical biography / Barbara K. Lewalski
2000, 1st ed. Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. A few pages and the rear end-paper are marked with highlighter. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443778
ISBN: 0631176659
Physical description: 814 p. Contents: The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography Revised Edition; Contents; List of Plates; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 "The Childhood Shews the Man" 1608-1625; 2 "To Cambridge . . . for Seven Years" 1625-1632; 3 "Studious Retirement": Hammersmith and Horton 1632-1638; 4 "I Became Desirous . . . of Seeing Foreign Parts, Especially Italy" 1638-1639; 5 "All Mouths Were Opened Against . . . the Bishops" 1639-1642; 6 "Domestic or Personal Liberty" 1642-1645; 7 "Service . . . Between Private Walls" 1645-1649
8 "The So-called Council of State . . . Desired to Employ My Services" 1649-16529 "Tireless . . . for the Sake of Liberty" 1652-1654; 10 "I . . . Still Bear Up and Steer Right Onward" 1654-1658; 11 "The Last Words of Our Expiring Libertie" 1658-1660; 12 "In Darknes, and with Dangers Compast Round" 1660-1665; 13 "Higher Argument": Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost 1665-1669; 14 "To Try, and Teach the Erring Soul" 1669-1674; Epilogue: "Something . . . Written to Aftertimes"; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. Subjects: Milton, John 1608-1674. Poets, English Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Biography.
Price: €60.00