ISBN: 1235808211

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235808210], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235808210], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt: ... MEMOIR OF JOHN MILTON (1608-1674). MILTON was born in 1608, in London, There he spent the first sixteen years of his life, the last sixteen of the reign of James I. In 1625, aged 17, and just after the accession of Charles I., he was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied for seven years, with industrious and persevering success. On leaving the University, Milton went to reside in Buckinghamshire, at a small village not far from Windsor, called Horton, where his father, a London scrivener, who had by this time retired from business, had taken a country house. The disturbed state of politics--King Charles having quarrelled with three Parliaments, and now resolving to govern by his own authority--led Milton to give up his original intention of entering the church, and he resolved to devote himself thenceforward exclusively to study, speculation, and literature. Six years of this life he saw here, producing at intervals the five poems belonging to his first period--VAllegro, II Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, and Lycidas. The quiet time at Horton brings him to h;s thirtieth year, and meanwhile Charles was busy with his new views on Government. By the help of his chief advisers, Laud and Strafford, the King had inaugurated his Reign of Thorough, had repressed and persecuted Calvinistic Theology, and all Puritan opinions, and had systematically promoted a hijjh Prelacy and a ritualistic ceremonial of worship, which in the eyes of the Puritans brought the Church of England back into the shadow of the Church of Rome. The large mass of the population lay in a dumb agony of discontent, sighing for a Parliament but not daring to mutter the word. With these Milton was in sympathy. And having his mind full of those subjects, he, in 1638, set out for Italy..., 11998, Rhetoric, 11970, Words, Language & Grammar, 21, Education & Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 1235808211

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