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Wife to Mr. Milton and the Isles of Unwisdom Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Graves, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 1857545850     ISBN-13: 9781857545852
Publisher: Carcanet Press
OUR PRICE:   $57.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry
Dewey: 823.912
Series: Millennium Graves
Physical Information: 2.01" H x 5.82" W x 8.82" (2.10 lbs) 860 pages
 
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In these true stories, the acclaimed writer Robert Graves explores the worlds of two men intent on success. Wife to Mr. Milton is an exploration into the marriage of a man the author considered one of the heinous monsters in the English poetic pantheon--John Milton--and how his wife was ill-used by him. Milton's first wife was 16 when they married, and Milton was after her dowry. When it did not follow he proved domineering and dishonest, unresponsive to her sensuousness and her down-to-earth wit. It was a spiritual misalliance, too: her Catholicism sorted ill with his beliefs. The dramatic political and military events of the English civil war touched her life at every point, including the execution of Charles I. The Isles of Unwisdom visits a different, very Catholic world, that of the expeditions of the Spanish explorers and discoverers, near contemporaries of Milton but not emancipated by the Reformation, who come unstuck in the New World. Reconstructed is the ill-fated voyage of Alvaro de Mendana y Neya to find the Solomon Islands, popularly believed to constitute the fabled Land of Ophir, where King Solomon amassed his legendary wealth.