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Publication: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Publication Date: 20-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Byline: John Adamson

Milton By Anna Beer Bloomsbury [pounds sterling]20 [pounds sterling]18 inc p&p (0845 606 4213)

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, the poet,polemicist and radical political theorist who created the greatest epic poem inthe English language. In Paradise Lost he deliberately set out to rival thegreat narrative poems of Homer, Virgil and Dante - and gloriously succeeded.

Such round-number birthdays are natural moments for reassessment.

But, all too often, they are also opportunities for publishers to jump on thecommemorative bandwagon with unseemly haste, delivering cobbled-togetherbiographies with little real merit.

Anna Beer's...

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