The Life of John Milton: A Critical BiographyProviding a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts.
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... argument with a pastiche of undergraduate humor: vulgar jokes about decaying teeth, burping, farting, foul-smelling breath; jibes at particular students and college officials by name, punning on elements of the festival banquet (Sparkes ...
... argument with a pastiche of undergraduate humor: vulgar jokes about decaying teeth, burping, farting, foul-smelling breath; jibes at particular students and college officials by name, punning on elements of the festival banquet (Sparkes ...
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... argument proper within an ironic frame allegorizing the combat of Truth and Error; Truth at length flies to Heaven leaving Error to control the schools, and Milton wittily aligns himself with the flight of Truth as he offers to “beat a ...
... argument proper within an ironic frame allegorizing the combat of Truth and Error; Truth at length flies to Heaven leaving Error to control the schools, and Milton wittily aligns himself with the flight of Truth as he offers to “beat a ...
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... argument plays off against the sonnet form.81 The rhyme scheme follows the Italian sonnet paradigm, though with a concluding couplet (abba abba cdcdee). The sequence employs familiar Petrarchan topics: the lady's name, Emilia, is ...
... argument plays off against the sonnet form.81 The rhyme scheme follows the Italian sonnet paradigm, though with a concluding couplet (abba abba cdcdee). The sequence employs familiar Petrarchan topics: the lady's name, Emilia, is ...
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Contents
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A Critical Biography Revised Edition 4 I Became Desirous of Seeing Foreign Parts Especially Italy 16381639 | 87 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 5 All Mouths Were Opened Against the Bishops 16391642 | 120 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 6 Domestic or Personal Liberty 16421645 | 154 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 7 Service Between Private Walls 16451649 | 198 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 8 The Socalled Council of State Desired to Employ My Services 16491652 | 236 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 11 The Last Words of Our Expiring Libertie 16581660 | 357 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 12 In Darknes and with Dangers Compast Round 16601665 | 398 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 13 Higher Argument Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost 16651669 | 442 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 14 To Try and Teach the Erring Soul 16691674 | 489 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition Epilogue Something Written to Aftertimes | 539 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition Notes | 548 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition Select Bibliography | 705 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition Index | 754 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 9 Tireless for the Sake of Liberty 16521654 | 278 |
A Critical Biography Revised Edition 10 I Still Bear Up and Steer Right Onward 16541658 | 319 |
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