Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton

A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization

John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet...