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Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.
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- Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works.
- Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an 'author'.
- Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.
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