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Title:
John Milton : a biography / Neil Forsyth.
Author:
Forsyth, Neil, 1944-
Publication Information:
Oxford : Lion, 2008.
Call Number:
PR3581 .F67 2008
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780745953106
Physical Description:
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : blind love -- St. Paul's -- Cambridge -- Early signs of genius -- Studious retirement -- Coping with death : 'Lycidas' -- Foreign parts -- No bishop, no king -- Mary Powell -- Civil war -- New houses, and a family -- Rudest violence -- Image breaking -- Blindness -- Cromwell protector -- A long argument to prove that god is not the devil -- Expiring liberty -- With dangers compast round -- Plague, and Paradise lost -- Fire and war -- Adam, Eve -- and Satan -- Milton's womb : chaos, hell and the ribs of gold -- Emptying the desk -- Paradise regained -- Final accomplishment -- Epilogue.
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