{"product_id":"poems-of-john-milton","title":"Poems of John Milton","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Milton (1608-74) lived through civil war, plague and fire, enduring loss, persecution, imprisonment and blindness, and his poetry is rich with drama and incident. Throughout his life he mastered almost every kind of verse; political, satirical, dramatic, elegiac, lyrical and epic, and filled his poems with gods, angels, nymphs, wizards and other mythical beings, all set in vivid imaginary landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new selection of his poems, sorted and introduced by Claire Tomalin, explores Milton's verse against the arc of his extraordinary life- from early schoolboy writings and the verse of the university wit at Cambridge to his masterly sonnets, ranging across subjects such as the natural world, a defence of Oliver Cromwell and a dream of his dead and much loved second wife. Extracts From Milton's epic \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003econcentrate on the dramatization of its chief characters- the hero-villain Satan, the archangel Raphael, and Adam and Eve, shown discovering the joys and problems of marriage. There are also lines from the late, dark verse drama \u003ci\u003eSamson Agonistes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCelebrating Milton's verse in all its grandeur, energy, subtlety and humour, this selection sheds a refreshing light on England's great seventeenth-century poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Poetry, European\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781846140334\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milton, John","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £3.09","offer_id":48164428513457,"sku":"SB-1846140331-C4","price":3.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1846140331.jpg?v=1794358494","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/poems-of-john-milton","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}