The Portable Milton (Portable Library) - Softcover

Milton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140150447 ISBN 13: 9780140150445

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1976

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140150447
• ISBN 13: 9780140150445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704
• Editor: Bush Douglas