Life of Milton

Life of Milton –  is a critical edition of Samuel Johnson’s 1779 biography of John Milton. As a staple for university literature students in India, it provides the original text alongside Tilak’s extensive academic commentary.    Details Milton’s education at Cambridge and his early “Horton Period,” where he wrote minor poems like L’Allegro and Il Penseroso. Covers his role as Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell and his radical Puritan beliefs.