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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... poet who mostly soared above contemporary struggles; or the Christian humanist whose poetry and prose gives eloquent voice to mainstream Christian theology and philosophy; or the “Grand Whig” whose dedication to advancing individual ...
... poet who mostly soared above contemporary struggles; or the Christian humanist whose poetry and prose gives eloquent voice to mainstream Christian theology and philosophy; or the “Grand Whig” whose dedication to advancing individual ...
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... poet. Though his father expected him to take orders in the church, he encouraged and nurtured his poetic talents, his sheer delight in learning, and his wide-ranging scholarship. His schoolmasters taught him languages, literature, and ...
... poet. Though his father expected him to take orders in the church, he encouraged and nurtured his poetic talents, his sheer delight in learning, and his wide-ranging scholarship. His schoolmasters taught him languages, literature, and ...
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... poet's birth his father was about 46 and his mother about 36, and he had one older sibling, a sister, Anne (birthdate unknown). His maternal grandmother Ellen Jeffrey, then widowed, lived with the family until her death in 1611, and a ...
... poet's birth his father was about 46 and his mother about 36, and he had one older sibling, a sister, Anne (birthdate unknown). His maternal grandmother Ellen Jeffrey, then widowed, lived with the family until her death in 1611, and a ...
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... poet. Aubrey called attention to the “delicate, tuneable voice” ofyoung John, noting that “his father instructed him ... poetic tribute to Milton senior's musical gifts.14 The scrivener's experience as amateur composer probably disposed ...
... poet. Aubrey called attention to the “delicate, tuneable voice” ofyoung John, noting that “his father instructed him ... poetic tribute to Milton senior's musical gifts.14 The scrivener's experience as amateur composer probably disposed ...
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... poets – Spenser (“our Homer”), George Wither (“our Juvenal”), Samuel Daniel (“our Lucan”), Philip Sidney (“our Anacreon”), John Harington (“our Martial”) – suggests that Gil may have encouraged that early love ofEnglish and ofthe ...
... poets – Spenser (“our Homer”), George Wither (“our Juvenal”), Samuel Daniel (“our Lucan”), Philip Sidney (“our Anacreon”), John Harington (“our Martial”) – suggests that Gil may have encouraged that early love ofEnglish and ofthe ...
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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