| The Portable Milton Paperbound Edition Contributor(s): Milton, John (Author), Bush, Douglas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140150447 ISBN-13: 9780140150445 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1976 Annotation: 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, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.4 |
| LCCN: 76040946 |
| Series: Viking Portable Library |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 5.11" W x 7.76" (1.06 lbs) 704 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being. |