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"Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America"
"Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America"
"Laudably cool-headed. . . . McDowell manages to shine new light even on some of the best-trodden territory. . . . [A] tour de force."---Roberta Klimt, Times Literary Supplement
"A terrific work of scholarship."---Jonathan Bate, Catholic Herald
"[McDowell] transforms our understanding of Milton’s emergent worldview with intelligence, authority and considerable flair. . . . Poet of Revolution will be the standard account of its subject, and the starting point for further discussion of Milton’s early life, for a long time to come"---Rhodri Lewis, Prospect
"[For McDowell] the crucial question is the one that has defined and divided Milton scholarship from the beginning, the question of politics. . . . We need not wonder why Milton becomes a radical, [McDowell] suggest[s], for Milton himself tells us why: the poet made the polemicist and the writer the revolutionary."---Catherine Nicholson, New York Review of Books
"McDowell’s erudite Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton helps us understand why and how Milton pursued poetic glory. . . . [He] skillfully integrates Milton’s literary world with his dangerous, complex, and rapidly changing world of religion and politics."---A. M. Juster, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written. . . . A wonderful book."---Joad Raymond, History Today
"This is an important work, possibly the most significant contribution to Milton studies in more than a decade."---Geoff Ridden, Early Modern Literary Studies
"Erudite, engaged, original, and illuminating."---Paul Hammond, Seventeenth Century
"This new book by Nicholas McDowell is superior to anything that I’ve yet read."---Paul Lay, FiveBooks
"One of my favorite non-fiction works this year. . . . Every page is enjoyable."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
"[A] magnificent intellectual biography."---Daniel Johnson, Law & Liberty
"McDowell’s new study, Poet of Revolution, tries to account for Milton’s transformation from ‘obscure student poet in the early 1630s, albeit one with grand Virgilian pretensions, to a leading oppositional prose polemicist as civil war broke out a decade later.'"---Maggie Kilgour, London Review of Books
"[A] tour-de-force pilgrimage through Milton's formative years. . . . Poet of Revolution is a heroic work, a judicious and well-written biography of England's greatest poet."---Paul Krause, Merion West
"One cannot do justice to McDowell’s achievement in this limited space. . . . Every page is rich in valuable information about Milton. . . . [A] major, innovative contribution to Milton studies."
"[A] very ambitious and rewarding book. Any student of 17th-century history will learn a great deal from it."---Pranav Jain, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
"A rich and detailed account of Milton's 'intellectual and political formation.' . . . [McDowell] brings Milton alive for readers, describing his material life, where he lived and travelled, what he read and puzzled over, and whom he engaged with at school and abroad."---Amy Gais, Review of Politics
Nicholas McDowell is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The English Radical Imagination and Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Milton.
"Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America"
"Laudably cool-headed. . . . McDowell manages to shine new light even on some of the best-trodden territory. . . . [A] tour de force."---Roberta Klimt, Times Literary Supplement
"A terrific work of scholarship."---Jonathan Bate, Catholic Herald
"[McDowell] transforms our understanding of Milton’s emergent worldview with intelligence, authority and considerable flair. . . . Poet of Revolution will be the standard account of its subject, and the starting point for further discussion of Milton’s early life, for a long time to come"---Rhodri Lewis, Prospect
"[For McDowell] the crucial question is the one that has defined and divided Milton scholarship from the beginning, the question of politics. . . . We need not wonder why Milton becomes a radical, [McDowell] suggest[s], for Milton himself tells us why: the poet made the polemicist and the writer the revolutionary."---Catherine Nicholson, New York Review of Books
"McDowell’s erudite Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton helps us understand why and how Milton pursued poetic glory. . . . [He] skillfully integrates Milton’s literary world with his dangerous, complex, and rapidly changing world of religion and politics."---A. M. Juster, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written. . . . A wonderful book."---Joad Raymond, History Today
"This is an important work, possibly the most significant contribution to Milton studies in more than a decade."---Geoff Ridden, Early Modern Literary Studies
"Erudite, engaged, original, and illuminating."---Paul Hammond, Seventeenth Century
"This new book by Nicholas McDowell is superior to anything that I’ve yet read."---Paul Lay, FiveBooks
"One of my favorite non-fiction works this year. . . . Every page is enjoyable."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
"[A] magnificent intellectual biography."---Daniel Johnson, Law & Liberty
"McDowell’s new study, Poet of Revolution, tries to account for Milton’s transformation from ‘obscure student poet in the early 1630s, albeit one with grand Virgilian pretensions, to a leading oppositional prose polemicist as civil war broke out a decade later.'"---Maggie Kilgour, London Review of Books
"[A] tour-de-force pilgrimage through Milton's formative years. . . . Poet of Revolution is a heroic work, a judicious and well-written biography of England's greatest poet."---Paul Krause, Merion West
"One cannot do justice to McDowell’s achievement in this limited space. . . . Every page is rich in valuable information about Milton. . . . [A] major, innovative contribution to Milton studies."
"[A] very ambitious and rewarding book. Any student of 17th-century history will learn a great deal from it."---Pranav Jain, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
"A rich and detailed account of Milton's 'intellectual and political formation.' . . . [McDowell] brings Milton alive for readers, describing his material life, where he lived and travelled, what he read and puzzled over, and whom he engaged with at school and abroad."---Amy Gais, Review of Politics
Nicholas McDowell is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The English Radical Imagination and Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Milton.