{"product_id":"making-darkness-light","title":"Making Darkness Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eMaking Darkness Light \u003c\/i\u003eis an illumination' Adam Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Darkness Light \u003c\/i\u003eshows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e.  It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and  complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence  of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about Milton, that also speaks to \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227509117272,"sku":"9781529364293","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529364293_f8fb7e47-fd49-421c-9cb9-f60862832c12.jpg?v=1777108559","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-darkness-light","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}