{"product_id":"the-portable-milton-9780140150445","title":"The Portable Milton","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Portable Milton\u003c\/b\u003e is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Milton\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing \u003cb\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/b\u003e in 1667, and \u003cb\u003eParadise Regained\u003c\/b\u003e in 1671. He died in 1674.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491528446226,"sku":"9780140150445","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f5f8fc1-260a-4e34-b02a-3cf5089252cc.jpg?v=1730542629","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-portable-milton-9780140150445","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}