Author: Sharon Achinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Lucy Ames Mead
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752439076
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Reproduction of the original: Milton’s England by Lucy Ames Mead

Author: Blaine Greteman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.

Author: David Loewenstein
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802089356
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illuminate the significance of the nation as a powerful imaginative construct in his writings.

Author: Lucia True Ames Mead
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Milton's England by Lucia True Ames Mead is about English poet John Milton's experience of his beautiful home country. John Milton's 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. Excerpt: "The London into Which Milton Was Born 11 II. Milton's Life on Bread Street 42 III. Milton at Cambridge 57 IV. Milton at Horton 78 V. Milton on the Continent.—In St. Bride's Churchyard.—At Aldersgate Street.—The Barbican.—Holborn.—Spring Gardens 85 VI. Milton at Whitehall.—Scotland Yard.—Petty France.—Bartholomew Close.—High Holborn.—Jewin Street.—Artillery Walk. 101 VII. Chalfont St. Giles.—Artillery Walk. 112 VIII. The Tower.—Tower Hill 126 IX. All Hallows, Barking.—St. Olave's.—St. Catherine Cree's.—St. Andrew Undershaft 143 X. Crosby Hall.—St. Helen's.—St. Ethelburga's.—St. Giles's, Cripplegate 164 XI. Gresham College.—Austin Friars.—Guildhall.—St. Mary's, Aldermanbury.—Christ's Hospital.—St. Sepulcher. 184 XII. Charterhouse.—St. John's Gate.—St. Bartholomew's.—Smithfield."

Author: K. P. Van Anglen
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.

Author: Stephen M. Fallon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801473678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philosophical systems that filled the vacuum left by the repudiation of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. In what has become the classic account of Milton's animist materialism, Fallon revises our understanding of Milton's philosophical sophistication. The book offers a new interpretation of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost as a clash of metaphysical systems, with free will hanging in the balance.

Author: John Milton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Christopher Hill
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788736842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular representations: instead of a gloomy, sexless "Puritan", we have a dashingly thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine.

Author: J. Martin Evans
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501724010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the literature of exploration and colonialism. The primary sources on which he draws range from sermons about the New World justifying colonization and exhorting virtue among colonists to promotional pamphlets designed to lure people and investment into the colonies. Evans's research allows him to create a richly textured picture of anxiety and optimism, guilt and moral certitude. The central question is whether Milton supported England's colonization or covertly attempted to subvert it. In contrast to those who attribute to Paradise Lost a specific political agenda for the American colonies, Evans maintains that Milton reflects the complexity and ambivalence of attitudes held by English society. Analyzing Paradise Lost against this background, Evans offers a new perspective on such fundamental issues as the narrator's shifting stance in the poem, the unique character of Milton's prelapsarian paradise, and the moral and intellectual status of Adam and Eve before and after the fall. From Satan's arrival in Hell to the expulsion from the garden of Eden, Milton's version of the Genesis myth resonates with the complex thematics of Renaissance colonialism.