This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

A study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the creative properties of utterance from the Bible to the work of…

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This in-depth biography examines the life and works of John Milton, the famous English poet and political activist. William Hayley delves into Milton's personal and professional history and offers insightful…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

In Paradise Lost (1667), Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man. In this wide-ranging study, William Poole analyses the origin, evolution, and…

William Poole recounts Milton’s life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. How did a blind man compose…

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