Beer closely examines all aspects of John Milton’s life – his poetry, his prose, his Latin writings, his careful editing of his own biography, his wider family’s affairs (deeds of sale and mortgage, loan and debt), the records of his government work, and the social and political history of England during one of its most tumultuous periods (an era that ran from Shakespeare’s plays to Pepys’ diaries).

Anna Beer has succeeded in bringing a great and misunderstood writer to vivid life four hundred years after his birth.

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