John Milton #1 - Professor Nicolas McDowell

Professor Nicolas McDowell, lecturer on Early Modern Literature and Thought, University of Exeter
focuses on the literary, cultural and intellectual history of the period 1500-1750, with particular focus on the Civil Wars of the 17th-century.

Professor McDowell is the award winning author of numerous books including:

Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
Co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Milton

In a featured Sparks of History interview, Professor McDowell presents the life and works of one of history's (most) outstanding writers, John Milton.