Author: Denis SauratPublisher: Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Denis Saurat Reader
Author: Denis SauratPublisher: Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost
Author: M. SarkarPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137007001
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the characters of the angels and Adam and Eve. After examining the contextual references to cabalism, hermeticism, and science in the invocations and in the presentation of chaos and Night, the book focuses on the central stage of the epic action, Milton's unique cosmos, at once finite and infinite, with its re-orientation of compass points. While Milton relies on the new astronomy, optics and mechanics in configuring his cosmos, he draws upon alchemy to suggest that the imagined prelapsarian cosmos is the crucible within which vital re-orientations of authority could have taken place.
Milton Among the Puritans
Author: Catherine Gimelli MartinPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409408567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity, Milton among the Puritans challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. Surveying the largely secular provenance of so much of Milton's thought, Catherine Martin clearly demonstrates that received ideas about the Puritan Milton are neither as well-established as most scholars believe, nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume.
Milton among the Puritans
Author: Professor Catherine Gimelli MartinPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409476189
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan poet" and reexamining the surprisingly tenuous Whig paradigm upon which this history has been built. Catherine Martin not only questions the current habit of "lumping" Milton with the religious Puritans but agrees with a long line of literary scholars who find his values and lifestyle markedly inconsistent with their beliefs and practices. Pursuing this argument, Martin carefully reexamines the whole spectrum of seventeenth-century English Puritanism from the standpoint of the most recent and respected scholarship on the subject. Martin also explores other, more secular sources of Milton's thought, including his Baconianism, his Christian Stoic ethics, and his classical republicanism; she establishes the importance of these influences through numerous direct references, silent but clear citations, and typical tropes. All in all, Milton among the Puritans presents a radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity; it shows that many received ideas about the "Puritan Milton" are neither as long-established as most scholars believe nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume, and resituates Milton's great poems in the period when they were written, the Restoration.
Catalog
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book RoomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Milton, Man and Thinker
Author: Denis SauratThe Tension Between Divine Will and Human Free Will in Milton and the Classical Epic Tradition
Author: Ron FeatheringillPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The tension existing between divine will and man's free will is a major theme in epic poetry, present in the Greek epics, Virgil's Aeneid, the Continental Renaissance epics, and Milton's Paradise Lost. The successful hero submits his will to the wills of the gods or God. Milton's treatment of human free will and his concept of heroism follow the epic tradition. The Puritan poet is not a rebel against the epic tradition as so many critics have affirmed.
O Rare Denis Saurat
Author: John Robert ColomboPublisher: Arkham House Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Author: