Milton's Places of Hope: Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with LandIn early modern culture and in Milton's poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land. Mary Fenton analyzes how Milton sees hope as bound both to the spiritual and the material, the internal self and the external world. Hope, as Fenton demonstrates, comes from commitment to literal places such as the land, ideological places such as the "nation," and sacred, interior places such as the human soul. Drawing on an array of materials from the seventeenth century, including emblems, legal treatises, political pamphlets, and prayer manuals, Fenton sheds light on Milton's ideas about personal and national identity and where people should place their sense of power and responsibility; Milton's politics and where he thought the English nation was and where it should be heading; and finally, Milton's theology and how individuals relate to God. |
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... anchors me to the deepest ground of Hope . A version of my second chapter was previously published as “ Hope , Land Ownership , and Milton's ' Paradise Within , " " in SEL 41.1 ( Winter 2003 ) : 151-80 , reprinted here with permission ...
... anchors me to the deepest ground of Hope . A version of my second chapter was previously published as “ Hope , Land Ownership , and Milton's ' Paradise Within , " " in SEL 41.1 ( Winter 2003 ) : 151-80 , reprinted here with permission ...
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... anchor or her spade was represented at the Hope Theatre . ” 13 Milton's world was not only full of hope as place names , but also as images . Milton was literally surrounded by places of hope . Biblical Land : Biblical Hope The ...
... anchor or her spade was represented at the Hope Theatre . ” 13 Milton's world was not only full of hope as place names , but also as images . Milton was literally surrounded by places of hope . Biblical Land : Biblical Hope The ...
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... anchor can be seen as a cross upended , and thus the union of hope with faith . The Old English Christ iterates a memorable image of this fusion of the anchor and the cross , hope and faith , when , after the Holy Spirit tells the ...
... anchor can be seen as a cross upended , and thus the union of hope with faith . The Old English Christ iterates a memorable image of this fusion of the anchor and the cross , hope and faith , when , after the Holy Spirit tells the ...
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... anchors in a craggy Bay After the Tempest . ( PL 2.284-90 ) As both references to “ anchor ” occur in nautical contexts , both references to " spade " are in military context . Milton uses " spade " once in Paradise Lost , once in ...
... anchors in a craggy Bay After the Tempest . ( PL 2.284-90 ) As both references to “ anchor ” occur in nautical contexts , both references to " spade " are in military context . Milton uses " spade " once in Paradise Lost , once in ...
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... anchor represents " the sure and steadfast " anchor of God's love.36 For Milton , discipline and obedience likewise constitute the weights that keep hope anchored , grounded in faith . The plough and spade serve as tools that work and ...
... anchor represents " the sure and steadfast " anchor of God's love.36 For Milton , discipline and obedience likewise constitute the weights that keep hope anchored , grounded in faith . The plough and spade serve as tools that work and ...
Contents
Hope Land Ownership and the Paradise Within | |
Keeping Irish Hope in its Place Charity Reduction and Reform | |
Place Hope and Prayer | |
Our Father Who Art in Hell Complicating Hope Confiscating Prayer | |
Myself Am Paradise Hope Land and Redemption in Paradise Regaind | |
Index | |
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