Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The History of Britain
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The History of Britain [by John Milton].
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Author: John MiltonMilton's History of Britain
Author: Nicholas Von MaltzahnPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Censured and incomplete, John Milton's History of Britain stands as a broken monument to the controversies of the seventeenth century, as well as to the political and religious ambitions of Milton himself. This book is the first full-length study of the History and, as a comparative study of its composition and publication, presents new perspectives on Milton's republican allegiances from the 1640s to the 1670s and beyond.
The History of Britain
Author: John MiltonPoet of Revolution
Author: Nicholas McDowellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691241732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost—but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton’s best-known works from this period, including the “Nativity Ode,” “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and “Lycidas.” Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton’s astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.
Historical Milton
Author: Thomas Chandler FultonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781558498440
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the manuscript evidence of Milton's thinking and its representation in his printed works
Paradise Lost
Author: John MiltonTreasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton
Author: John MiltonLiterature and Dissent in Milton's England
Author: Sharon AchinsteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Table of contents
Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution
Author: Ian GentlesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521038751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This is a collection of essays about major aspects of the "English Revolution" of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how it was fought (soldiers), how it was defended and argued over (writers), and how it was shaped and how it failed (statesmen). The essays are written by both established and younger scholars of the period in honor of Austyn Woolrych, founding Professor of History at the University of Lancaster and the author of many influential books and articles.