Wife to Mr Milton Author:Robert Graves She was 16 and doomed to a lifelong passion for a Royalist captain. He was 34, a poet and Puritan, obsessed by her long golden hair. — Marie Powell married John Milton in payment of a debt. It was a mismatching of bitter ineptitude, for in temperament and conviction they were worlds apart. — Their marriage is the focus of this superb novel. Ric... more »h in atmosphere and period detail, it brilliantly invokes the passions that swept the country, deftly counterpointing the tragedy of two thwarted lives against a backdrop of faction, violence, and waste.« less