Wife to Mr. Milton. A Novel [Unknown Binding]

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• Publisher: Academy Chicago Ltd.; Reprint edition (January 1, 1979)
• ASIN: B000Z9FYXE
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.

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4.0 out of 5 stars details for a background, August 26, 2011

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Bruce P. Barten (Saint Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wife to Mr. Milton (Hardcover)

I should quote a good description:

Colonel Oliver Cromwell was as yet
a person of little account in the Commons,
being hasty-mouthed, rude, without eloquence,
and a by-word because of his massacre of the
Queen's bears, which she had brought from Holland.
For, finding the citizens of Uppingham in Rutlandshire
baiting these bears upon the Lord's Day,
in the height of their sport he had caused
the bears to be seized, tied to a tree and shot;
which was poor sport indeed.
His opinion at this time he cunningly enclosed
in a single phrase: "I can tell you, sirs,
what I would not have, though not what I would!"