Eden Renewed The Public and Private Life of John Milton by Peter Levi

This is an account of the life and career of John Milton. The book traces the development of Milton's poetry from the Latin intimations of his boyhood through the lyrical poems of his youth, Lycidas, Comus and the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity to the achievements of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, offering Levi's own interpretations of the poems and placing them in the context of Milton's contemporaries and his times. Levi's own translations of some of Milton's Latin poems are also included.