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Author: Anna Beer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions:
Width: 14.10cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 20.80cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781596916784
ISBN 10: 1596916788
Pages: 458
Publication Date: 04 August 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
“There is no more richly and scrupulously researched examination of Milton’s life than Anna Beer’s authoritative account.”—A. C. Grayling, author of Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius “Anna Beer offers the most readable biography yet of the author of the most important poem in the English language. No one in the last four hundred years has produced such a comprehensive portrait.” — Jack Lynch, author of Becoming Shakespeare <p>“It’s the best narrative I ’ve read of the life of our greatest public poet.” — Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass
"""There is no more richly and scrupulously researched examination of Milton's life than Anna Beer's authoritative account.""--A. C. Grayling, author of ""Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius"""""" ""Anna Beer offers the most readable biography yet of the author of the most important poem in the English language. No one in the last four hundred years has produced such a comprehensive portrait.""""""""--""Jack Lynch, author of ""Becoming Shakespeare """"It's the best narrative I 've read of the life of our greatest public poet.""""--""Philip Pullman, author of ""The Golden Compass"" “There is no more richly and scrupulously researched examination of Milton’s life than Anna Beer’s authoritative account.”—A. C. Grayling, author of ""Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius"""""" “Anna Beer offers the most readable biography yet of the author of the most important poem in the English language. No one in the last four hundred years has produced such a comprehensive portrait.”"" """"—""Jack Lynch, author of ""Becoming Shakespeare ""“It’s the best narrative I ’ve read of the life of our greatest public poet.”""—""Philip Pullman, author of ""The Golden Compass"""
There is no more richly and scrupulously researched examination of Milton's life than Anna Beer's authoritative account. --A. C. Grayling, author of Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius Anna Beer offers the most readable biography yet of the author of the most important poem in the English language. No one in the last four hundred years has produced such a comprehensive portrait. -- Jack Lynch, author of Becoming Shakespeare It's the best narrative I 've read of the life of our greatest public poet. -- Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass
Author Information
Anna Beer is a lecturer in literature and a fellow of Kellogg College at the U niversity of Oxford. She is the author of the acclaimed Bess: The Life of Lady Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter.
