Writing a biography of John Milton seems seductively easy, for two powerful reasons. First, much of the necessary information appears to be readily available. In the closing decades of the seventeenth century five lives were written by people who knew Miltonor could draw information from others who did. Edward Phillips prepared an account of his uncle’s life for inclusion in an edition of Milton’s state papers published in 1694. The antiquary John Aubrey assembled a collection of notes on Milton’s life (now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford), in part based on interviews with relatives, including Milton’s brother Christopher and his widow Elizabeth. An anonymous biographer who can now be identiWed with conWdence as Milton’s friend Cyriack Skinner wrote a life that survives in manuscript, again in the Bodleian Library. [download]
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