Download or read book The Age of Milton written by C. A. Patrides and published by Manchester [Eng.] : Manchester University Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes and Noble. This book was released on 1980 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Milton Twentieth Century Perspectives written by Martin Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Studies in Milton written by S. Liljegren and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins in 1918 with a little volume under the harmless title Studies in Milton by S. B. Liljegren. The Swedish scholar brings in two heavy charges against Milton. First that he has consciously lied in his Areopagitica by saying that he visited Galileo Galilei in Florence, - and secondly that he committed a disgusting piece of forgery by having an unworthy, prayer inserted in the Eikon Basilikè, the spiritual legacy of Charles the First, and holding up this very prayer to cynical derision in his Eikonoklastes. In order to make these disreputable facts credible, the book began with a long introduction tending to show that Milton's character was a great deal more dishonest and insincere than Masson had maintained. To Prof. Liljegren Milton is an extreme type of Renaissance-individualism, a Machiavelli in Puritan disguise, whose pride was fostered by his Calvinistic feeling of predestination. Yet not a Christian but a Stoic of the Roman type, contemptuous of all authority, divine as well as human; a self-willed tyrant, hating the rabble and holding that great men may be right in misleading the people (p. XVIII); a poet whose force of inspiration was supplied by the passions of himself and his surroundings (p. XXXIX). Such a characterization was evidently something more than emphasizing Milton's disagreeable qualities already known. Yet the facts upon which this description was based were not newly discovered. Only, earlier critics had put a more lenient interpretation upon these facts. Indeed, the strong expressions of ambition, arrayed by Liljegren on p. XX ss. can be explained by a to some extent justified feeling of superiority. And his unjust onslaughts on his adversaries can be forgiven by whoever knows the manners of the 17th century and has experienced in the 20th century what red-hot passion the excitement of war can enkindle. Did not Milton since his return from Italy continually live in an atmosphere of the worst of wars, war civil and religious? - What was really new in Liljegren and what would hopelessly compromise Milton's character of high respectability, was the detailed accusation of conscious untruthfulness and forgery. Has Mr. Liljegren. succeeded in substantiating his charges? -Neophilologus, Vol. 7 [1922]
Download or read book Milton written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton chronicles the tremendous changes that have taken place in this town in the last century. Originally a part of Dorchester, Milton was incorporated as an independent town in 1662. For more than two hundred years, the area was primarily agrarian, with industrial activity along the Neponset River. Following the Civil War, Milton's population rapidly increased due to the convenience of the Dorchester and Milton branch of the Old Colony Railroad, which provided railway access to Boston. By the early 20th century, rampant development was occurring on all sides of the town. This generously illustrated volume, with vintage images placed alongside contemporary photographs, shows the changes that have taken place in Milton through the years.
Download or read book Lord Fitzwilliam of Milton written by Charmaine K. Webber and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Milton Authorship and the Book Trade written by Stephen B. Dobranski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of Milton's authorship and the material production of his texts in relation to the booktrade.
Download or read book Milton written by Anna Beer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of the master writer, offering insight into his involvement in the politics and religion of his era, and covering such topics as his writings against King Charles, his troubled relationships, and the impact of the Restoration on his survival.
Download or read book Milton written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There Is No Poet In English Literature Like Milton : So Firm In Religious Conviction, So Fierce In Politics, So High In Poetic Flight, So Grand In Style, So Great In Scholarship, So Beautiful In Appearance, So Overbearing In Attitude, So Stoical In Sufferance And All These Are At The Same Time. And All These Varied Facets Of Milton Have Variously Coloured The English Literature. Milton Is The Third Milestone In The History Of English Literature, The First And The Second Being Chaucer And Shakespeare, Respectively. Therefore, One'S Study Of English Literature Will, Certainly, Remain Incomplete So Long As One Is Not Acquainted With Milton'S Works.The Present Book May Be Treated As An Introduction To Milton. In It, All The Three Phases Of Milton'S Creative Life Have Been Highlighted : The Phase Of Early Or Minor Poems, The Phase Of Pamphleteering And The Phase Of The Epics And The Lone Drama. Special Treatments Have Been Accorded To The Poet'S Major Works : Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained And Samson Agonistes. And, Throughout The Book, Critical And Appreciative Attitudes Are Pervading.
Download or read book Lactantius and Milton written by Kathleen Ellen Hartwell and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Milton written by Emma Depledge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and intellectual movements, as well as how his works have been positioned since their first publication. The individual chapters assess Milton's reception by exploring how his authorial persona was shaped by the modes of writing in which he chose to express himself, the material forms in which his works circulated, and the ways in which his texts were re-appropriated by later writers. The Milton that emerges is one who actively fashioned his reputation by carefully selecting his modes of writing, his language of composition, and the stationers with whom he collaborated. Throughout the volume, contributors also demonstrate the profound impact Milton and his works have had on the careers of a variety of agents, from publishers, booksellers, and fellow writers to colonizers in Mexico and South America.
Download or read book Making Darkness Light written by Joe Moshenska and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being. Revolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more. Making Darkness Light shows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem Paradise Lost. It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. This is a book about Milton, that also speaks to why we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.
Download or read book A Concise Companion to Milton written by Angelica Duran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Milton Among the Philosophers written by Stephen M. Fallon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A New Companion to Milton written by Thomas N. Corns and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time
Download or read book Milton and the Rabbis written by Jeffrey Shoulson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth between Milton's writings and Jewish writings of the first five centuries of the Common Era, collectively known as midrash. In exploring the historical and literary implications of these connections, Shoulson shows how Milton's text can inform a more nuanced reading of midrash just as midrash can offer new insights into Paradise Lost. Shoulson is unconvinced of a direct link between a specific collection of rabbinic writings and Milton's works. He argues that many of Milton's poetic ideas that parallel midrash are likely to have entered Christian discourse not only through early modern Christian Hebraicists but also through Protestant writers and preachers without special knowledge of Hebrew. At the heart of Shoulson's inquiry lies a fundamental question: When is an idea, a theme, or an emphasis distinctively Judaic or Hebraic and when is it Christian? The difficulty in answering such questions reveals and highlights the fluid interaction between ostensibly Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian modes of thought not only during the early modern period but also early in time when rabbinic Judaism and Christianity began.
Download or read book A Companion to Milton written by Thomas N. Corns and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work. Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time. Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost. Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.
Download or read book A Milton Encyclopedia written by William Bridges Hunter and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nine volume set presents in easily accessible format the extensive information now available about John Milton. It has grown to be a study of English civilization of Milton's time and a history of literary and political matters since then.
