Mark Pattison: 5 books

Biography of the poet, polemicist and English man of letters Joh Milton, written by Mark Pattison. Mark Pattison (1813 – 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

In this 1879 addition to the English Men of Letters series, Pattison explores the life and work of John Milton, the author of the definitive Paradise Lost. The volume touches on Milton’s pamphlets, famous works of poetry, and even his religious beliefs. Pattison judges only Shakespeare to be Milton’s superior in the realm of English poetry.

John Milton was a great English poet who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.  With epic poems such as Paradise Lose and Paradise Regained, Milton remains one of the most famous writers in English literature.  This edition of Milton, a biography written by the English priest Mark Pattison, includes a table of contents.

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