John Milton A Biography
- Oxford Lynx Communications 2008
- 254p
includes index and biblioraphy
John Milton has usually been regarded as the other great poet in English; other, that is, than Shakespeare. He was an accomplished linguist and a man of controversial but deeply held religious and political convictions. A radical Protestant and a staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth, and continued in the post even when he lost his sight....