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Maggie Kilgour: The Young Milton, 21 October 2021
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
by Nicholas McDowell.
Princeton, 494 pp., £30, October 2020,978 0 691 15469 5 Show More
by Nicholas McDowell.
Princeton, 494 pp., £30, October 2020,
“... In their groundbreaking biography, published a decade ago, Thomas Corns and Gordon Campbell argued that the young John Milton was not, as he has often been portrayed, a born radical. Instead, they argued, before 1637 the young Milton was politically and religiously conservative, a member of the Church of England who supported the High Church reforms carried out by William Laud, the archbishop of Canterbury ... ”