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.
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Here he mentions `diffuse' and `brief' epic, pastoral dramas and tragedies, odes and hymns. Renaissance theorists and poets also recognized many other kinds, identified by a mix of formal and thematic elements, conventions and topics: ...
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retreat from London and without a court often wrote works in pastoral and romance modes, celebrating retirement and friendship, or courtly chivalry (Potter 1989; Smith 1994: 233±41). By contrast, some writers associated with the ...
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The essence of `L'Allegro', youthful mirth, is displayed in the activities and values of the pastoral mode and the literary genres harmonious with it: rural folk and fairy tales of Queen Mab and Goblin; court masques and pageants; ...
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Sets and machinery were elaborate, and the ideality of Charles's reign was often imaged in pastoral terms: the Queen is Chloris/Flora in Chloridia (1631); the court is imaged as the Valley of Tempe in Tempe Restored (1632); and in ...

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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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