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Heavenly muse; John Milton.(Book review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20080301
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A man apart

PEOPLE quail slightly at the thought of John Milton: the Latin, the theology, the school memories of "Paradise Lost"--there is something inhospitable about it all. A scholar himself, Milton seems to belong to scholars and teachers. Very little is known about his private life. There is a haunting sonnet to a dead wife, but he wrote nothing else about any of his three wives, two of whom died soon after giving birth, nor about his three daughters, nor even about his dead infant son. Anna Beer, in this fair-minded and scholarly biography, cannot disguise her ...

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