@article{338830,
      recid = {338830},
      author = {Campbell, Gordon, and Corns, Thomas N.},
      title = {John Milton : life, work, and thought /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {Oxford :},
      pages = {xiii, 488 p. :},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of  seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced  exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism,  radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the  writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton,  whose career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in  English history. A more human Milton appears in these  pages, a Milton who is flawed, self-contradictory,  self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious,  and cunning. He is also among the most accomplished writers  of the period, the most eloquent polemicist of the  mid-century, and the author of the finest and most  influential narrative poem in English, Paradise Lost, which  the book examines in detail. The authors also show how,  amid the chaos sparked by the shifting political  circumstances of the period, Milton emerged as a major  political thinker and a significant systematic theologian.  Working through Milton's polemical and imaginative works,  the book unravels the evolution of his thought as he moves  from a culturally advanced but ideologically repressive  young manhood, to his struggle for a new reformation of the  church and a defense of regicide and republicanism, and  finally to his thinking about how to retain ideological  integrity in the threatening context of the Restoration.  The authors also examine his final years, years of creative  fulfillment and renewed political engagement.  What Milton  achieved in the face of crippling adversity, blindness,  bereavement, and political eclipse, remains wondrous. Here  is a fascinating biography of this towering literary  figure, the first new serious study in forty years, one  that profoundly challenges the received wisdom about one of  England's leading poets and thinkers.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/338830},
}