Author: Charles DunsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Considerations on Milton's Early Reading, and the Prima Stamina of His Paradise Lost
A Concise Companion to Milton
Author: Angelica DuranPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405122722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
With brevity, depth, and accessibility, this book helps readers to appreciate the works of John Milton, and to understand the great influence they have had on literature and other disciplines. Presents new and authoritative essays by internationally respected Milton scholars Explains how and why Milton’s works established their central place in the English literary canon Structured chronologically around Milton’s major works Also includes a select bibliography and a chronology detailing Milton’s life and works alongside relevant world events Ideal as a first critical work on Milton
John Milton
Author: Gordon CampbellPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622982
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex story emerges, of Milton's culturally rich but ideologically conformist early decades, and of his radicalisation during the later years of Laudianism. We track the internal dynamics of English puritanism in the 1640s and the impact that has on his own convictions. In the 1650s Milton's thought and beliefs were reconciled to the role as public servant. In the 1660s a renewed confidence carried him towards the completion of his greatest project, Paradise Lost, and his final years were ones of creative fulfilment and renewed political engagement. Amid the discontinuities occasioned by shifting political circumstance, by the exigencies of polemical context, and the diversity of genres in which he wrote, Milton emerged as a major political thinker and significant systematic theologian, as well as the most eloquent prose writer and most accomplished poet of the age. A more human Milton appears in these pages, flawed, self-contractory, self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning, as well as the literary genius who achieved so much.
A Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Milton Collection
Author: The Life of John Milton: 1638-1643
Author: David MassonA Consideration of the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Godfrey Locker LampsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The Life of John Milton
Author: David MassonThe Life of John Milton
Author: David MassonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368132962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
A Consideration of Macaulay's Comparison of Dante and Milton
Author: William John CourthopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood
Author: Elizabeth SauerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer shows the extent to which seventeenth-century English notions of nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry.