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.
|
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 84
Page xii
... political allegory; or the deconstructed Milton who serves as a sounding board for multiple and contradictory cultural voices. Recent historiography on the English Civil War and Interregnum – both revisionist and counter-revisionist ...
... political allegory; or the deconstructed Milton who serves as a sounding board for multiple and contradictory cultural voices. Recent historiography on the English Civil War and Interregnum – both revisionist and counter-revisionist ...
Page xiii
... politics, reformist poetics, and the inherently revolutionary power of prophecy. He was deeply involved with the major intellectual and political issues of his time, developing, arguing passionately for, and in some cases changing his ...
... politics, reformist poetics, and the inherently revolutionary power of prophecy. He was deeply involved with the major intellectual and political issues of his time, developing, arguing passionately for, and in some cases changing his ...
Page xv
... Politics of Masquing,” in The Politics ofthe Stuart Court Masque, eds. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook, Cambridge ... [political] Experience,' ” is from Milton Studies 24, ed. James D. Simmonds, © 1989 by University ofPittsburgh Press ...
... Politics of Masquing,” in The Politics ofthe Stuart Court Masque, eds. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook, Cambridge ... [political] Experience,' ” is from Milton Studies 24, ed. James D. Simmonds, © 1989 by University ofPittsburgh Press ...
Page 17
... political charge – vehemently anti-Catholic, anti-Laudian, critical of Stuart religious repression, supportive of Protestant militancy in Europe, prophetic – a politics that aligns him with reformist and oppositional views. We can ...
... political charge – vehemently anti-Catholic, anti-Laudian, critical of Stuart religious repression, supportive of Protestant militancy in Europe, prophetic – a politics that aligns him with reformist and oppositional views. We can ...
Page 57
... politics of the king's festivals. The contemporary Puritan historian Lucy Hutchinson saw masques and sports as a ... political crisis: The generality of the gentry of the land soone learnt the Court fashion, and every greate house in ...
... politics of the king's festivals. The contemporary Puritan historian Lucy Hutchinson saw masques and sports as a ... political crisis: The generality of the gentry of the land soone learnt the Court fashion, and every greate house in ...
Contents
1 | |
15 | |
53 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adam Anthony à Wood April Areopagitica argues argument Arminian army biblical bishops blind Book Cambridge chapter Charles Christ Christian church civil claims Commonwealth copy council court CPW IV.1 CPWI Cromwell Cromwell’s death Defensio Secunda Diodati divine divorce Doctrina Christiana Doctrine edition Edward Phillips Eikonoklastes Elegy England English epic father February God’s Greek Hartlib hath human insists John John Milton king king’s L’Allegro later Latin learned letter liberty London Lycidas manuscript Marchamont Nedham marriage masque Milton probably ministers More’s ofhis ofMilton’s ofthe Paradise Lost parliament pastoral Paul’s poem poet poetic poetry polemic political praise Presbyterian Protestant Psalm published Puritan reason reform regicide religion religious republic republican Restoration rhetoric Roman royalist Rump Rump Parliament Salmasius Samson Samson Agonistes Satan scripture sonnet thir Thomas tion tracts translation treatise verse virtue Waldensians William writing wrote