The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. With Life.

Milton, John:

ISBN 10: 0395055741 / ISBN 13: 9780395055748

Published by Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis,, 1965

About this Item

xx, 491 pp. Eight Engravings on Steel. Text enclosed in ruled margins. Text clean. All edges gilt. Front hinge cracked. Maroon cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering on front board and spine. Gilt on spine and front edge of front board rubbed away. Corners bumped and rubbed. Short length of rubbing on front edge of front board. Boards patchily faded. Overall condition VG-.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. With Life.
• Publisher: Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis,
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395055741
• ISBN 13: 9780395055748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalogue 17 - Poetry

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About the Author

John Milton was a seventeenth-century English poet, polemicist, and civil servant in the government of Oliver Cromwell. Among Milton s best-known works are the classic epic Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, considered one of the greatest accomplishments in English blank verse, and Samson Agonistes.

Writing during a period of tremendous religious and political change, Milton s theology and politics were considered radical under King Charles I, found acceptance during the Commonwealth period, and were again out of fashion after the Restoration, when his literary reputation became a subject for debate due to his unrepentant republicanism. T.S. Eliot remarked that Milton s poetry was the hardest to reflect upon without one s own political and theological beliefs intruding.