Christopher Hill
Milton and the English Revolution.
The Viking Press, 1978. First edition. 0670476129 xviii/541 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in light gray cloth spine and greenish-gray paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Previous owners' names are discreetly stamped at top of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear and is preserved in mylar cover.
"In this remarkable book, Christopher Hill has brought the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to a major reassessment of Milton as a man, poet, politician, and, above all, religious thinker. The result is a profound and brilliant exploration of one of the giants of Western literature, from which emerges a dramatically different portrait of Milton. Instead of a gloomy, sexless Puritan, we have a dashingly original artist and thinker deeply immersed in the tumultuous political and religious radicalism of his own day."