William Poole: Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost [2017] hardback Condition:New this is the book I

this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15

and with captions written by Brooks

but often not

amid forces that tried to silence them

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William Poole: Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost [2017] hardback Condition:New this is the book IMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self elected national poet and explains how the single greatest poem of the English language came to be written. In early 1642 Milton an obscure private schoolmaster promised English readers a work of literature so great that "they should not willingly let it die." Twenty five years later, toward the end of 1667, the work he had pledged appeared in print: the