Best Milton Biography

[astrum]

What, in your opinion, is the best biography on John Milton?


I heard that William Riley Parker's biography (http://books.google.com/books?id=t6hGd9yD1EIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=william+riley+parker+milton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JJIBUsnSCqrXyAGMjYHYBQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=william%20riley%20parker%20milton&f=false) is the gold standard. Do you agree?

If not, which biography do you like better?

[WICKES]

I once heard a professor say that C S Lewis' 'Preface to Paradise Lost' contains the best description he'd ever read of what Milton was actually like. C S Lewis' literary criticism is magnificent (even his fellow professors at Oxford were in awe of his range and breadth of knowledge)