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What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed.
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Anthony Kern
reviewed Milton in America on July 01, 2008
Milton in America
A big disappointment, considering how much I enjoyed some of his other fiction about English writers. The conceit is that Milton did not go into hiding at the Restoration in 1660, but instead ran away to the Eden of the New World, and there became the head of a small town of Puritans. Interesting idea, but Ackroyd apparently had no place to go with it, other than to imply that Milton's main problem was sexual repression. Pretty unconvincing. I'm not very familiar with Milton's controversial pamphleteering, where I guess he could get pretty shrill, but the voice in this book is not even close to the voice I hear in Paradise Lost or the other poetry. And it illumined that poetry not at all.
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