{"product_id":"milton-paperback-9781108034753","title":"Milton (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108034753","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMilton\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1879 biography of John Milton by Victorian scholar Mark Pattison is an ideal combination of author and subject.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Pattison (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108034753, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.3 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis life of John Milton was first published in the English Men of Letters series in 1879. Its author, Mark Pattison (1813–84) spent most of his adult life in Oxford, as a student, a tutor, and eventually, from 1861, Rector of Lincoln College. Pattison's scholarly interest in religious thought in England, and in the history of classical learning after the Renaissance, made him the ideal biographer for the poet whose writing life was spent in justifying God's ways to man, and whose knowledge of Greek and Latin literature was almost unmatched. Pattison sees the life as divided into three periods: he provides a narrative of events and an analysis of Milton's literary output (both verse and prose) for each. The final chapter is a discussion of the major poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, concluding with the assertion of Milton's supremacy over all English writers except Shakespeare.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst Period. 1608–39: 1. Family - school - college\u003cbr\u003e 2. Residence at Horton - l'Allegro - Il Penseroso - Arcades - Comus - Lycidas\u003cbr\u003e 3. Journey to Italy\u003cbr\u003e Second Period. 1640–60: 4. Education theory - teaching\u003cbr\u003e 5. Marriage and pamphlet on divorce\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pamphlets\u003cbr\u003e 7. Biographical. 1640–9\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Latin secretaryship\u003cbr\u003e 9. Milton and Salmasius - blindness\u003cbr\u003e 10. Milton and Morus - the second defence – the defence for himself\u003cbr\u003e 11. Latin secretaryship comes to an end - Milton's friends\u003cbr\u003e Third Period. 1660–74: 12. Biographical - literary occupation - religious opinions\u003cbr\u003e 13. Paradise Lost - Paradise Regained - Samson Agonistes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266041860376,"sku":"9781108034753","price":21.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108034753i.jpg?v=1694873811","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/milton-paperback-9781108034753","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}