The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England.
... James Holly Hanford and James G. Taaffe set the tone in A Milton Handbook : Beyond the canonical books of the Bible ... in author- ity , , " the difference between canonical and noncanonical was for him a vitally important one . To ...
John Milton (1608-1674) is often regarded as one of England's greatest poets, second only to Shakespeare.
"This is a new account of the intellectual, literary and political development of one the central poets in the English canon.
Written with exceptional clarity, Down to Earth re-envisions the story of America "from the ground up.