There's a good biography of Milton - "Poet of Revolution" by Nicholas McDowell. Really fascinating to see how he was educated in England ca. 1600 (e.g. having t

There's a good biography of Milton - "Poet of Revolution" by Nicholas McDowell. Really fascinating to see how he was educated in England ca. 1600 (e.g. having to debate in Latin, as well as write any of a variety of poetic forms in Latin and Greek).