The Arms of the Family: The Significance of John Milton's Relatives and Associates.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050401
Author:McWilliams, John

The Arms of the Family: The Significance of ,john Milton's Relatives and Associates By JOHN T. SHAWCROSS. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2004. vii + 304 pp. $45431-95. ISBN 0-8131-2291-0.

The life of John Milton can hardly be described as a neglected area of literary scholarship, and yet in this excellent and informative book, John T. Shawcross presents a wealth of new material on the subject. His overriding argument is that family matters do matter and that some of Milton's key family relationships have been either neglected or misread by Miltonists in the past. So ...

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