The Story of Marie Powell, Wife to John MiltonAuthor(s): Robert Graves\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Seven Stories Press, United States\nImprint: Seven Stories Press\nISBN-13: 9781644213346, 978-1644213346\nSynopsis\nAt the age of sixteen, Mary Powell marries poet John Milton. Their marriage, which plays out during the Civil War, is not one of love, but rather a practical arrangement that proves to be a devastating mismatch of temperaments and convictions. Her Royalist sympathies and his ardent parliamentarianism, her independence, and his austere way of life, 1640s England is a hotbed of clashing ideologies and so too is this marriage. The story, which unfolds in Marie's sensitive and searching journals, is a scathing portrait of one of England's most famous poets, a story of literary ambition and masculine egoism, and, like all of Graves' historical novels, a monumental achievement of closely watched history. One the one hand, this is a tender story of the romance Marie Powell fou.