The Value of Milton

The Value of Milton

Author: John Leonard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1107059852

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Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.


The Complete Poems and Major Prose

The Complete Poems and Major Prose

Author: John Milton

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 1081

ISBN-13: 1624665853

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First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.


Complete Shorter Poems

Complete Shorter Poems

Author: John Milton

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 9781405832793

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This edition contains all Milton's English poems, with the exception of Paradise Lost, together with translations and texts of all his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. It provides explanatory notes and a summary of modern criticisms for each poem.


A Reader's Guide to John Milton

A Reader's Guide to John Milton

Author: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1998-02-01

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780815604969

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Marjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes.


Single Imperfection

Single Imperfection

Author: Thomas H. Luxon

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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This book takes a fresh look at John Milton's major poems Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Regained and a few of the minor ones in light of a new analysis of Milton's famous tracts on divorce. Luxon contends that Milton's work is best understood as part of a major cultural project in which Milton assumed a leading role the redefinition of Protestant marriage as a heteroerotic version of classical friendship, originally a homoerotic cultural practice. Schooled in the humanist notion that man was created as a godlike being, Milton also believed that what marked man as different from God is loneliness. Milton's reading of Genesis it is not good for man to be alone prescribes a wife as the remedy for this single imperfection, but Milton thought marriage had fallen to such a degraded state that it required a reformation. As a humanist, Milton looked to classical culture, especially to Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, for a more dignified model of human relations friendship. Milton reimagined marriage as a classical friendship, without explicitly conceptualizing the issues of gender construction. Nor did he allow the chief tenet of classical friendship, equality, to claim a place in reformed marriage. Single Imperfection traces the path of friendship theory through Milton's epistolary friendship with Charles Diodati, his elegies, divorce pamphlets, and major poems. The book will prompt even more reinterpretations of Milton's poetry in an age that is anxiously redefining marriage once again.