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Poet of revolution : the making of John Milton (Record no. 34824)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691241739
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 821.4
Item number MCD
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McDowell, Nicholas
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Poet of revolution : the making of John Milton
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2022
Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton :
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 485 p. ;
Other physical details ill.,
Dimensions 21 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2400.00
Price type code ₹
Unit of pricing 1.00
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Series statement JSTOR ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This is a new account of the intellectual, literary and political development of one the central poets in the English canon. Author Nicholas McDowell follows John Milton more or less from his birth in 1608 and his education to his emergence as a polemical prose writer in the 1640s, concluding at the moment when Milton turned his pen to defending the execution of Charles I in 1649 in the closing years of the English Civil War, though several years before the onset of the poet's blindness and the composition of Paradise Lost. As the author makes explicit, this is not a book about the writing of Milton's great biblical epic; rather, it is a book about the formation of the mind that eventually would create this epic, though only after that same mind, of course, justified the killing of a king. Central to the book is Milton's evolving understanding of the ways in which 'tyranny'-defined initially in ecclesiastical and clerical terms but which grows to encompass political organization-retards the intellectual and cultural progress of a nation. McDowell demonstrates how this understanding was shaped not only by Milton's historical experience of the political turbulence of mid seventeenth-century Britain, but also by the interaction between that experience and his intellectual life. This, the author says, was Milton's period of intensive and almost entirely orthodox reading in history and religion, and it was then that he came to see any clerical encroachment upon civil authority as tyranny. His intellectual pursuits, in tandem with wider events, led him to turn to explicitly political prose writing in the defence of regicide at the beginning of 1649. This biography of the first half of the poet's life shows us how John Milton the young poet, scholar, humanist, and universalist became John Milton the puritan, republican and polemicist-- Provided by publisher. 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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political and social views
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biographies
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Milton, John, 1608-1674
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poets, English
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Early modern Biography
Topical term or geographic name as entry element 1500-1700 Biography
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Collective biographies
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Item type Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     DAU DAU 21/11/2025 BBC 2400.00   821.4 MCD 036311 21/11/2025 Books