Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Six Chief Lives
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Notes upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost, etc
Author: Joseph AddisonThe lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Lives of the English Poets
Author: Lives of Milton and Addison
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Milton and Religious Controversy
Author: John N. KingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521771986
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Religious satire and polemic constitute an elusive presence in Paradise Lost. John N. King shows how Milton's poem takes on new meaning when understood as part of a strategy of protest against ecclesiastical formalism and clericalism. The experience of Adam and Eve before the Fall recalls many Puritan devotional habits. After the Fall, they are prone to 'idolatrous' ritual and ceremony that anticipate the religious 'error' of Milton's own age. Vituperative sermons, broadsides and pamphlets, notably Milton's own tracts, afford a valuable context for recovering the poem's engagement with the violent history of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Restoration, while contemporary visual satires help to clarify Miltonic practice. Eighteenth-century critics who attacked breaches of decorum and sublimity in Paradise Lost alternately deplored and ignored a literary and polemical tradition deployed by Milton's contemporaries. This important study, first published in 2000, sheds light on Milton's epic and its literary and religious contexts.
Selections from The Spectator
Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Beautiful Sublime
Author: Leslie MoorePublisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
To explore the early-eighteenth-century view of the 'sublime Milton', the author analyzes the work of five readers of Paradise Lost during the years 1701-34: Joseph Addison, the only writer of the five who attained any lasting fame; and John Dennis, by far the most important - and overlooked - of the early Miltonists.
Surprised by Sin
Author: Stanley Eugene FishPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674857476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
In 1967 Milton studies was divided into two camps: one claiming (per Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party, the other claiming (per Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet's sympathies were obviously with God and his loyal angels. Fish has reconciled the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis.
Author: Samuel Johnson