Milton's LegacyKristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham In The Reason of Church Government, a thirty-three-year-old John Milton writes of his hope that by labour and intent study... joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. Even the young Milton, committed as he was to achieving a place in the annals of poetic history, might have been surprised by the strenuous efforts in aftertimes to keep his legacy alive. The fifteen essays that comprise this collection focus, from varied perspectives, on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and A Mask, poems that have attracted sustained critical attention. Several consider shorter poems, such as the Nativity Ode, The Passion, Upon the Circumcision, and Sonnet 14. Some pursue issues of sources, authorship, and audience, while still others probe extant biographical records or reflect on the author as biographical subject. Diverse though they are in subject matter, approaches, and emphases, all demonstrate how Milton scholarship in the twenty-first century continues to be committed to not willingly let ting] Milton's literary legacy die. Kristin A. Brothers University. Charles W. Durham is professor emeritus of English at Middle Tennessee State University, and is president of the Milton Society of America. |
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... argument against licensing , which has always been read as an argument for books , is really an argument that renders books beside the point ; books are no more going to save you than they are going to corrupt you ; by denying their ...
... argument against licensing , which has always been read as an argument for books , is really an argument that renders books beside the point ; books are no more going to save you than they are going to corrupt you ; by denying their ...
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... arguing that Eve is forced to fall because Adam cannot recognize her as truly other . The otherness Morrisey imagines then collapses into a self - deconstructing dialectic that his argument acknowl- edges but cannot finally escape . As ...
... arguing that Eve is forced to fall because Adam cannot recognize her as truly other . The otherness Morrisey imagines then collapses into a self - deconstructing dialectic that his argument acknowl- edges but cannot finally escape . As ...
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... argument embraced by Masson , Hunter , and French that Milton would appear in this list before Mr. Matthews and Mr. Povey . While he does appear before them in the lists of 1641 and the Assessment of 1642 , he is never right before them ...
... argument embraced by Masson , Hunter , and French that Milton would appear in this list before Mr. Matthews and Mr. Povey . While he does appear before them in the lists of 1641 and the Assessment of 1642 , he is never right before them ...
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
Raphaels Role in Paradise Lost | 33 |
Paradise Regained | 83 |
Copyright | |
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