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This audiobook narrated by Richard Pryal brings Milton's formative years to life, providing an entirely 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 of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create
Paradise Lost—but would first justify the killing of a king.
Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso,"
Comus, and "Lycidas."
Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical,
Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length15 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byRichard Pryal
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Introduction: Two University Scenes
10Chapter 9, In Pursuit of Patronage, 'Pluto's Helmet'
2Part 1, London and St Paul's School, 1608–25, Chapter 1 - Londiniensis
11Chapter 10 - Many Are the Shapes of Things Daemonic, Pagan Virtue
3Chapter 2 - Pure Chaste Eloquence
12Part 4, Horton and Italy, 1635-9, Chapter 11 - The Circle of Studies, Identity and Belief in 1636
4Chapter 3 - The Pursuit of Universal Learning
13Chapter 12 - Love and Death in 'Lycidas', Two Sorts of Shepherd
5Part 2, Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625–9, Chapter 4 - Philology and Philosophy: 'Whip't Him'
14Chapter 13 - Writing and Society in 'Lycidas', 'Run Amarillis Run'
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6Chapter 5 - Beginning as a Poet
15Chapter 14 - Come un Virtuoso, In Circe's Court
7Chapter 6 - Heroes and Daemons, Miscellany Poet
16Part 5, London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42, Chapter 15 - Becoming a Polemicist, The Method of History
8Chapter 7 - The Poetics of Play and Devotion, 'His Hand Unstained'
17Chapter 16 - The Poetics of Polemic, 'Struggle of Contrarieties'
9Part 3, Cambridge and Hammersmith, 1629-35, Chapter 8 - Laudian Poet?, 'Tenet of the Apocalyptical Beast'
18Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic, Closing Anno
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