The first full work on Milton in more than thirty years offers readers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the greatest poets in the English language, tracing his life through its literary and political themes and including fresh interpretations of his most important writings.
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Drawing on earlier biographies and Milton scholarship, Levi (fellow, St. Catherine's Coll., Oxford; Edward Lear, S. & S., 1995) offers a popular account of the life and work of the great 17th-century poet John Milton. Levi breaks no new ground. His discussion of the major works, such as Paradise Lost, is largely limited to plot summary and brief comment. Writing in an older tradition of British biography, he is opinionated, eccentric, witty, and very entertaining but, finally, not very useful. There is no bibliography, though Levi occasionally refers to selected secondary works that he finds useful. For academic libraries with comprehensive Milton collections.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Eden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton (Hardcover)
Peter Levi is an English poet, and for the most part he writes lively if occasionally sloppy prose. It's hard to tell who this biography of John Milton, the great Puritan poet, has been written for, however. Scholars will shun it for its total lack of documentation and its spotty detail. Average readers, wanting to know more about Milton and his times, will find it both condescending at times and frustratingly abstruse at others. Levi's greatest strength are his openly judgmental evaluations of the poems; perhaps he should have published those judgments on their own as a brief "appreciation" of Milton.
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