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Author: Francis C. Blessington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 0429619537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study, first published in 1979, explores the idea that all spheres of action - hell, heaven, and earth - of the classical epic is relevant to all parts of Paradise Lost. The author also examines the structure, style, and the narrator of the text. This title will be of great interest to students of Milton and English Literature.
Author: John Milton
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis C. Blessington
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Paradise Lost, his poetic retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, John Milton sought to create a Christian parallel to the classical works of Homer and Virgil. His achievement remains the undisputed masterpiece of the epic for in English. Francis Blessington's Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic clarifies the complexities of the poem and highlights its relevance to our own time as well as Milton's.
Author: David Quint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-02-02
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0691159742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost—its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam’s decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton’s masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.
Author: John Milton
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Published: 1711
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dr Mandy Green
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-28
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 140947528X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilton's Ovidian Eve presents a fresh and thorough exploration of the classical allusions central to understanding Paradise Lost and to understanding Eve, one of Milton's most complex characters. Mandy Green demonstrates how Milton appropriates narrative structures, verbal echoes, and literary strategies from the Metamorphoses to create a subtle and evolving portrait of Eve. Each chapter examines a different aspect of Eve's mythological figurations. Green traces Eve's development through multiple critical lenses, influenced by theological, ecocritical, and feminist readings. Her analysis is gracefully situated between existing Milton scholarship and close textual readings, and is supported by learned references to seventeenth-century writing about women, the allegorical tradition of Ovidian commentary, hexameral literature, theological contexts and biblical iconography. This detailed scholarly treatment of Eve simultaneously illuminates our understanding of the character, establishes Milton's reading of Ovid as central to his poetic success, and provides a candid synthesis and reconciliation of earlier interpretations.
Author: John Milton
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780872206724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes' richly annotated edition -- revised in 1962 -- remains the preferred text of many instructors.
Author: William Poole
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-10-09
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0674971078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Poole recounts Milton's life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole explores how Milton’s life and preoccupations inform the poem itself—its structure, content, and meaning.
Author: Paul Hammond
Publisher: British Academy
Published: 2010-08-12
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within which his reputation evolved and fluctuated. The illuminating and entertaining range of perspectives will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.
Author: John Milton
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Published: 1817
Total Pages: 450
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