John Milton And His Times

Author : Joe Moshenska
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529364309

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Making Darkness Light by Joe Moshenska Pdf

'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being. Revolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more. Making Darkness Light shows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem Paradise Lost. It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. This is a book about Milton, that also speaks to why we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.

Author : Max Ring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3189

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John Milton and His Times by Max Ring Pdf

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780679645597

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The Essential Prose of John Milton by John Milton Pdf

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library’s definitive The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this indispensable collection, authoritatively annotated and updated for this new volume, now includes selections from Milton’s Commonplace Book and the complete text of The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates in addition to Milton’s letters, pamphlets, political tracts, and essays. Milton tackles diverse subjects and takes controversial positions, including notorious defenses of divorce and protests against censorship. With expert analysis, a chronology of the author’s life, clean layouts, and a comprehensive index, The Essential Prose of John Milton is an invaluable keepsake—a book bound to be a revelation for all readers of this monumental author. “Meticulously edited, full of tactful annotations that set the stage for his work and his times, and bringing Milton, as a poet and a thinker, vividly alive before us.”—Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the United States

Author : Barbara K. Lewalski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470776841

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The Life of John Milton by Barbara K. Lewalski Pdf

Providing 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. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works. Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an 'author'. Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:N11678720

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Paradise Lost by John Milton Pdf

Author : JOHN MILTON.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019543393

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John Milton ... by JOHN MILTON. Pdf

Author : Max Ring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3586792

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John Milton and His Times by Max Ring Pdf

Author : William Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OXFORD:591088362

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The Life and Times of John Milton by William Carpenter Pdf

Author : John T. Shawcross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813170141

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John Milton by John T. Shawcross Pdf

"Winner of the James Holly Hanford Prize given by the Milton Society of America An exporation into the mind of John Milton that probes deeper than previous biographical studies, John Shawcross's award-winning text examines the psychological underpinnings of Milton's decision to become a poet, the homoerotic dimensions of his personality, and his relationships with his father and mother. John T. Shawcross is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kentucky and the author and editor of many books. See other books in the series Studies in the English Renaissance.

Author : Thom Satterlee
Publisher : Slant Books
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781639820412

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God’s Liar by Thom Satterlee Pdf

The year is 1665. England is in the midst of the Restoration, and John Milton, a blind, politically and religiously marginalized writer associated with Oliver Cromwell's failed attempt to form a republic, has not yet published Paradise Lost. When one of the worst plagues in history descends upon London, he and his much younger wife are forced to flee to the countryside. There Milton is befriended by the local curate, Rev. Theodore Wesson, who knows nothing about Milton's controversial past or the dangers of associating with him. Soon their fates become intertwined when the curate's hopes for advancement are threatened by his relationship to the notorious traitor and "king-killer," John Milton. The situation tests Wesson's loyalty--to the monarchy, to friendship, to a church career--while complicating his already blurry sense of God's involvement in human affairs. For Milton, the cost is potentially even greater: the target of assassination attempts since the restoration of the monarchy five years earlier, he has real reason to fear for his life. A riveting and briskly paced novel that transports the reader to a very particular place and time even as its themes resonate with our own time, Thom Satterlee's God's Liar will take its place next to works as varied as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Colm Toibin's The Master.

Author : Max Ring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000121014033

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John Milton and His Times by Max Ring Pdf

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015073664735

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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton by John Milton Pdf

"This edition contains all of Milton's poetry and a generous portion of his most vital prose. The texts of both have been almost entirely modernized"--General preface.

Author : Nicholas McDowell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691241739

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Poet of Revolution by Nicholas McDowell Pdf

A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost—but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton’s best-known works from this period, including the “Nativity Ode,” “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and “Lycidas.” Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton’s astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.

Author : Max Ring
Publisher : R. West
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0849222834

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John Milton and His Times by Max Ring Pdf

Author : Anna Beer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608193783

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Milton by Anna Beer Pdf

John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar Anna Beer traces his literary roots to a youthful passion for ancient verse, especially Ovid. She also rounds out parts of his life that have been, until now, little studied. Milton was deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time, writing a series of pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and religious, political and social rights that forced a complete rethinking of the nature and practice not only of government, but of human freedom itself. He struggled to survive through Cromwell's rise to power, chaotic reign and death, and then the restoration of the monarchy. Milton's personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional, and here it receives a fresh assessment. For centuries, he has emerged from biographies either as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or as a saintly figure removed from the messy business of personal affections. While Milton was probably a touch tyrant and saint, Beer suggests he also suffered lifelong heartache at the untimely death of his intimate friend Charles Diodati, with whom he was likely in love. Milton's context, from religious persecution to institutional turmoil to sexual politics, is as central to the book as Milton himself. With extensive new research, Milton emerges from Anna Beer's ground-breaking biography for the first time as a fully rounded human being.