The Portable Milton

John Milton

Penguin, Aug 26, 1976 - Fiction - 704 pages

The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being.

About the author

John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Portable Milton; Portable Library
• Author: John Milton
• Editor: Douglas Bush
• Publisher: Penguin, 1976
• ISBN: 1101174439, 9781101174432
• Length: 704 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh