Wife to Mr. Milton

Wife to Mr. Milton

Title: Wife to Mr. Milton
Author: Robert Graves
Release: 2014-03-06
Kind: ebook
Genre: Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction
Size: 6987276
The famous poet John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, had a wife, and their story is both strange and tumultuous. Consummate historical novelist and poet Robert Graves tells the story from the perspective of the wife, Marie Powell, a young woman who married the poet to escape a debt.

From the start, the couple proves mismatched; Milton is a domineering and insensitive husband set on punishing Marie for not providing the promised dowry. John Milton and his young wife are both religiously and temperamentally incompatible, and this portrait of their relationship is spellbinding, if not distinctly unflattering to Milton. It also provides fascinating accounts of the political upheavals of the time, including the execution of Charles I. This book is an excellent read for fans of historical fiction.

More Books from Robert Graves

Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves, Rick Riordan & Ross MacDonald
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves & Grevel Lindop
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves & Raphael Patai
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves & Alan Hodge
Robert Graves
Robert Graves & Raphael Patai
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Ovid, Virgil, Claudius, Julius Caesar, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Porcius Licinius, Gaius Maecenas, Numa Pompilius, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. W. Rolleston, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George MacDonald, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Thomas Love Peacock, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gilbert Parker, Brander Matthews, Arthur Quiller-Couch, H. W. Garrod, Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain, C. H. B. Kitchin, Alan Porter, Robert Graves, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes & A. C. Bradley
Richard Estep & Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves, Joshua Podro & John Presley
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves & Floreal Mazía
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves