A Companion to Milton

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Thomas N. Corns
John Wiley & Sons, 15 apr. 2008 - 548 pagina's
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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.

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Pagina 3
... and Euripides raigne shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Salomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges.
Pagina 7
... the personal rule of 1629±40, when Charles ruled without Parliament (Parry 1981). The royal pair displayed themselves under various mythological and pastoral guises as enacting the union of Heroic Virtue (Charles) and Divine Beauty ...
Pagina 8
Nor are the monarchs the agents of cure and renewal: that role belongs to Sabrina as an instrument of divine grace from the region, the Welsh countryside, and as an embodiment of the transformative power of song and poetry.
Pagina 10
Twice Milton signals the collapse of pastoral by genre shifts, as the pastoral oaten flute is interrupted by notes in a `higher mood' (line 87): the epic speech of divine Apollo assuring the living swain and the dead Lycidas of enduring ...
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Yet he hopes and expects to surpass them, since his subject is both truer and more heroic than theirs, and since he looks for illumination and collaboration to the divine source of both truth and creativity. With the striking portrait ...

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Inhoudsopgave

PART II Politics and Religion
107
PART III Texts
211
PART IV Influences and Reputation
445
PART V Biography
481
Consolidated Bibliography
499
General Index
521
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Over de auteur (2008)

Thomas N. Corns is a Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many publications include Milton's Language (Blackwell, 1990), Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (1992), and Regaining Paradise Lost (1994). He is also the editor of The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (1999).

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TitelA Companion to Milton
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
RedacteurThomas N. Corns
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UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN0470998628, 9780470998625
Lengte548 pagina's
  
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