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Book Title: Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost
Item Length: 9.4in
Item Height: 1.3in
Item Width: 6.4in
Author: William Poole
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Poetry, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 27.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
