Milton [Illustrated edition]
by Mark Pattison


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<p><b>Milton by Mark Pattison</b></p><br /><p><b> Edited and Formatted for optional user enjoyment .</b></p><br />- Our books are professionally produced and edited to provide the best reading experience<br /><br />- Our books contain unique illustrations that readers can enjoy <br /><br />- Check out our extensive range of top quality books on our site by searching Zellerz Publishing on Amazon<br /><br /><p><b> Summary </b></p><br />In the seventeenth century it was not the custom to publish two<br />volumes upon every man or woman whose name had appeared on a<br />title-page. Nor, where lives of authors were written, were they<br />written with the redundancy of particulars which is now allowed.<br />Especially are the lives of the poets and dramatists obscure and<br />meagrely recorded. Of Milton, however, we know more personal details<br />than of any man of letters of that age. Edward Phillips, the poet's<br />nephew, who was brought up by his uncle, and lived in habits of<br />intercourse with him to the last, wrote a life, brief, inexact,<br />superficial, but valuable from the nearness of the writer to the<br />subject of his memoir. A cotemporary of Milton, John Aubrey (b.1625),<br />&#x22;a very honest man, and accurate in his accounts of matters of fact,&#x22;<br />as Toland says of him, made it his business to learn all he could<br />about Milton's habits. Aubrey was himself acquainted with Milton, and<br />diligently catechised thepoet's widow, his brother, and his nephew,<br />scrupulously writing down each detail as it came to him, in the<br />minutee of lives which he supplied to Antony Wood to be worked up in<br />his Athenae and Fasti. Aubrey was only an antiquarian collector,<br />and was mainly dependent on what could be learned from the family.<br />None of Milton's family, and least of all Edward Phillips, were of a<br />capacity to apprehend moral or mental qualities, and they could only<br />tell Aubrey of his goings out and his comings in, of the clothes<br />he wore, the dates of events, the names of his acquaintance. In<br />compensation for the want of observation on the part of his own kith<br />and kin, Milton himself, with a superb and ingenuous egotism,<br />has revealed the secret of his thoughts and feelings in numerous<br />autobiographical passages of his prose writings. From what he directly<br />communicates, and from what he unconsciously betrays, we obtain an<br />internal life of the mind, more ample than that external life of the<br />bodily machine, which we owe to Aubrey and Phillips.<br /><br /><p> Take advantage of our excellent books </p><br /><br /><p><b> Get your kindle copy today!</b></p><br />