Achievements of the Left Hand: Essays on the Prose of John Milton
Author: Michael Lieb
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
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John Milton Prose
Author: John Milton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-11-05
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 1118325648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty. This superbly annotated new publication is the most authoritative single-volume anthology yet of Milton's major prose works. Uses Milton's original language, spelling and punctuation Freshly and extensively annotated Notes provide unrivalled contextual analysis as well as illuminating the wealth of Milton's allusions and references Will appeal to a general readership as well as to scholars across the humanities
The Life of John Milton
Author: Barbara K. Lewalski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 0470776846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works. Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an 'author'. Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.
Milton and the Politics of Public Speech
Author: Helen Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1317095952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Hannah Arendt’s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton’s fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. The book shows how Milton uses rhetorical theory - its ideas, techniques and image patterns - to dramatise the struggle between ’good’ and ’bad’ oratory, and to fashion his own model of divinely inspired public utterance. Connecting his polemical and imaginative writing in new ways, the book discusses the subliminal rhetoric at work in Milton’s political prose and the systematic scrutiny of the power of oratory in his major poetry. By setting Milton in the context of other Civil War polemicists, of classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations, and of Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the book sheds new light on his work across several genres, culminating in an extended Arendtian reading of his ’Greek’ drama Samson Agonistes.
Milton's Languages
Author: John K. Hale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-08-28
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0521583535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilton's poetry is one of the glories of the English language, and yet it owes everything to Milton's widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five. In Milton's Languages, John K. Hale first examines Milton's language-related arts in verse-composition, translations, annotations of Greek poets, Latin prose and political polemic, giving all relevant texts in the original and in translation. Hale then traces the impact of Milton's multilingualism on his major English poems. Many vexed questions of Milton studies are illuminated by this approach, including his sense of vocation, his attitude to print and publicity, the supposed blemish of Latinism in his poetry, and his response to his literary predecessors. Throughout this full-length study of Milton's use of languages, Hale argues convincingly that it is only by understanding Milton's choice among languages that we can grasp where Milton's own unique English originated.
Milton's Theology of Freedom
Author: Benjamin Myers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 3110919370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the centre of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a radical commitment to divine and human freedom. This study situates Paradise Lost within the context of post-Reformation theological controversy, and pursues the theological portrayal of freedom as it unfolds throughout the poem. The study identifies and explores the ways in which Milton is both continuous and discontinuous with the major post-Reformation traditions in his depiction of predestination, creation, free will, sin, and conversion. Milton’s deep commitment to freedom is shown to underlie his appropriation and creative transformation of a wide range of existing theological concepts.
Milton and the Burden of Freedom
Author: Warren Chernaik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1316982750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout his writings, Milton, deeply engaged in political and theological controversy, sought to clear a space for human freedom in a world ruled by an omniscient and omnipotent deity. Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, as well as other works by Milton in verse and prose, explore the problematical aspects of a universe ruled by an Old Testament God of wrath, demanding obedience, who allows his creatures the freedom to be 'authors' of their own fate. Milton and the Burden of Freedom examines the contradictions inherent in Milton's religious, political, and ethical beliefs as expressed in his poems, prose writings, and the treatise De Doctrina Christiana. Milton, whose writings are rooted in the Reformed tradition while challenging Calvinist orthodoxy, is both radical and conservative. In this book, Warren Chernaik traces the evolution of Milton's attitude towards freedom, servitude and virtue during a century of political upheaval and disappointed hopes.
Inventing Polemic
Author: Jesse M. Lander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-30
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 0521838541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation into the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature.
English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics
Author: Heinrich F Plett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9004617183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
Author: N. H. Keeble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-17
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1139825933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment were enacted and refigured in writing which both shaped and was shaped by the tumultuous times. The various strategies of this battle of the books are explored through essays on the course of events, intellectual trends and the publishing industry; in discussions of canonical figures such as Milton, Marvell, Bunyan and Clarendon; and in accounts of women's writing and of fictional and non-fictional prose. A full chronology, detailed guides to further reading and a glossary are included.
