{"product_id":"john-milton-paperback","title":"John Milton - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Forsyth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of Charles II his life was probably saved by his fame as a poet. He was thrice married, his first two wives dying after childbirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis serious yet accessible biography by a renowed Milton scholar tells the story of Milton's fascinating and troubled life on both the personal and political level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeil Forsyth holds an M.A. in Classics and English from King's College, Cambridge, and another in Comparative Literature from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his PhD. from the Universityof California at Berkeley. He is renowned as a Milton scholar, and The Milton Society of America awarded him the 2004 James Holly Hanford prizefor The Satanic Epic. Princeton and Guildford: Princeton University Press, 2003\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46562374090937,"sku":"9780745953106","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/john-milton-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}