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Bezig met laden... Wife to Mr. Milton (1944)door Robert Graves
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Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life. Her husband is high-minded and unyielding, and only makes Marie long for the man she really loves. As Civil War sweeps across England and the King is killed, a battle starts to rage between husband and wife - one that only the powerful can win. Told through the fictional journals of Milton's wife, Robert Graves's sympathetic and sensitive reconstruction of her tragic life is also a convincing, linguistically rich portrait of seventeenth-century England as it is ravaged by war. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Graves manages to include a concise historical narrative of the Civil War that is neither too complicated nor outside the plot and development of the story.
However, Milton remains in the memory as the over-bearing, self-righteous Puritan, never slow to advance his own interests and mean to others.