Eden Renewed. The Public and Private Life of John Milton.

First US edition. Large 8vo. Pp. xx, 332. Light tan paper boards stamped in red foil to spine; red endpapers. 8 b/w plates, appendices, index. Pictorial dustwrapper (priced $27.95 on front flap). Originally published in Britain by Macmillan in 1996.

An account of the life and career of John Milton tracing his development from the Latin imitations of his boyhood through the lyrical poems of his youth to the majestic achievement of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. The first full work on Milton in thirty years.

"[A] perceptive and sympathetic demonstration of how all the other strands of Milton's life led towards the culminating endeavour of his most famous work." –Rodie Sudbery, The Times Higher Education Supplement