about her new biography of poet John Milton published 400 years after his birthfrom Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Books: Anna Beer on her new biography of poet John Milton
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In the opening section he describes the death of his father in piercing detail, anchoring the exigent crisis with strands of earlier memories ("Appearing in his car on Sunday mornings/Impatient for the whole world to wake up,/He'd arrive for lunch before breakfast") that lend individual texture to this most commonplace of tragedies.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: On your marks
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