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One of the great literary biographies of the 20th century, Parker's Milton is a unique scholarly accomplishment, based on a vast range of documentary evidence. Campbell's revised edition of the Commentary includes supplementary notes which record recent findings with biographical implications, as well as suggested resolutions to some of the questions raised by the original text, such as the dating of Samson Agonistes and the History of Britain.

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Parker's life of Milton has long been accepted as one of the great literary biographies of the twentieth century, a unique accomplishment of scholarship based on a vast range of documentary evidence. Originally published in 1968, the biography was immediately acclaimed as 'indispensable', 'authoritative', as well as 'controversial', and Parker himself was described in The Review of English Studies as 'a living library and a walking museum'. Since the first edition was published, our understanding of seventeenth-century history has been fundamentally reshaped by historians and literary scholars. Gordon Campbell's revised edition of the commentary includes supplementary notes which record recent findings with biographical implications, as well as the suggested resolutions to some of the questions raised by Parker's original text, such as the dating of Samson Agonistes and Milton's History of Britain.

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WHEN the first volume of David Masson's monumental Life of Milton was published (1859), the names of the poet's grandparents, both paternal and maternal, were still unknown. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Biography: general
Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries
English
British Isles
1608-1674
Biography
Early modern, 1500-1700
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism
Milton, John,
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Poets, English


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