Milton S Century

Author : Michael R. Collings
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479409945

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Milton's Century by Michael R. Collings Pdf

No artist creates his works in a vacuum. Beyond the conscious influence of books read, artwork seen, minds probed (through conversation or exchange of letters), writers are in no small part products of everything that surrounds them--people, places, things, events. MILTON'S CENTURY is designed to place one particular genius--John Milton, arguably the finest poet the English nation (perhaps even Western civilization) has produced--in the context of his time. And what a remarkable time it was--a century of revolutions, of discoveries, of literary and artistic efflorescence, of religious turmoil and political turbulence, of plagues and fires and ultimate rebuilding...and of the first adumbrations of the Modern Age. MILTON'S CENTURY becomes vital and alive for twenty-first-century readers through the vast network of connections and interconnections that Professor Collings articulates. [Borgo Literary Guides, No. 15.]

Author : Thomas Matthew Vozar,Vozar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198875949

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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century by Thomas Matthew Vozar,Vozar Pdf

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the sublime, a concept that only took shape in the decades after his death with the advent of philosophical aesthetics. Such a narrative, however, fails to account for the fact that Milton is one of the first writers in English to refer to Longinus, the author traditionally associated with the Ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime. This book argues that Milton did have an idea of the sublime--one that came to him from Longinus but also from a larger classical tradition that offered a pre-aesthetic predecessor to the aesthetic concept of the sublime. Thomas Vozar shows that Longinus was better known in early modern England than has been previously appreciated; that various notions of sublimity beyond that of Longinus would have been available to Milton and his contemporaries; and that such notions of the sublime were integral to Milton's rhetorical, scientific, and theological imagination. Additional material relating to the early modern reception of Longinus is provided in the appendices, which contain the first bibliographical study of copies of Longinus in English private libraries to 1674 and an edition of a newly discovered seventeenth-century English translation of Longinus. Far from being anachronistic, Milton's "abstracted sublimities" touch on almost every aspect of his thought, from rhetoric to politics, from science to theology. Making substantive contributions to literary scholarship, classical reception studies, and the history of ideas, Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century returns the sublime to its proper place at the forefront of Milton criticism, re-evaluates the diffusion of Longinian texts and concepts in early modern Europe, and records a crucial missing chapter in the history of the sublime.

Author : C. A. Patrides,Raymond B. Waddington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0719008166

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The Age of Milton by C. A. Patrides,Raymond B. Waddington Pdf

Author : Volkan Kiliç
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527509894

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Milton's Political Ideas and Paradise Lost as a Political Allegory by Volkan Kiliç Pdf

Although Milton wrote several poems and sonnets in his earlier career, he became known as a revolutionary and passionate political activist, beginning his political career with the pamphlets that he wrote on the current politics of his time, defending antimonarchical rule and republicanism, giving particular attention to the religious and civil liberties of the people and the necessity of a free commonwealth. However, following the restoration of monarchy, he had to stop writing political pamphlets because, as a republican and defender of regicide, Milton was in danger, and the new regime made it impossible for him to express his political thoughts safely. He embarked on a literary project which included his major poetical works, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Considering his earlier reputation as an ardent republican, leading an active political life, it can be stated that Milton could not detach himself from the political controversies of his time. Hence, he wrote Paradise Lost as a political poem in which he reflected and inserted his political views in an allegorical manner. This book re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. It argues that, using literature as a medium of expression, Milton intentionally wrote Paradise Lost as a political poem, in which, by re-writing the Biblical story of the Creation, the fall of Satan and the fall of Adam and Eve, he created a political subtext which reflected the social and political panorama of England of his time.

Author : Emma Depledge,John S. Garrison,Marissa Nicosia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192555021

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Making Milton by Emma Depledge,John S. Garrison,Marissa Nicosia Pdf

This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and intellectual movements, as well as how his works have been positioned since their first publication. The individual chapters assess Milton's reception by exploring how his authorial persona was shaped by the modes of writing in which he chose to express himself, the material forms in which his works circulated, and the ways in which his texts were re-appropriated by later writers. The Milton that emerges is one who actively fashioned his reputation by carefully selecting his modes of writing, his language of composition, and the stationers with whom he collaborated. Throughout the volume, contributors also demonstrate the profound impact Milton and his works have had on the careers of a variety of agents, from publishers, booksellers, and fellow writers to colonizers in Mexico and South America.

Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998625

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A Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns Pdf

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work. Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time. Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost. Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.

Author : Michael D'Antonio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743264105

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Hershey by Michael D'Antonio Pdf

D'Antonio pens the first full biography of one of the most successful and unusual business titans of the 20th century--Milton Hershey--and a startling history of how his commanding fortune shaped a unique utopian legacy.

Author : Angelica Duran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781405122726

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A Concise Companion to Milton by Angelica Duran Pdf

With brevity, depth, and accessibility, this book helps readers to appreciate the works of John Milton, and to understand the great influence they have had on literature and other disciplines. Presents new and authoritative essays by internationally respected Milton scholars Explains how and why Milton’s works established their central place in the English literary canon Structured chronologically around Milton’s major works Also includes a select bibliography and a chronology detailing Milton’s life and works alongside relevant world events Ideal as a first critical work on Milton

Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118827826

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A New Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns Pdf

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time

Author : William Bridges Hunter
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838718388

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A Milton Encyclopedia by William Bridges Hunter Pdf

This nine volume set presents in easily accessible format the extensive information now available about John Milton. It has grown to be a study of English civilization of Milton's time and a history of literary and political matters since then.

Author : Catherine Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208297

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Milton’s Italy by Catherine Martin Pdf

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton’s own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline during and after Milton’s travels of 1638-1639, the period immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language, cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately influenced Milton’s "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated here.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600079994

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The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the author by J. Mitford by John Milton Pdf

Author : Islam Issa,Angelica Duran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192844743

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Milton Across Borders and Media by Islam Issa,Angelica Duran Pdf

This edited volume explores the combination of cultural phenomena that have established and canonized the work of John Milton in a global context, from interlingual translations to representations of Milton's work in verbal media, painting, stained glass, dance, opera, and symphony.

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171567940

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Milton by Sunil Kumar Sarker Pdf

There Is No Poet In English Literature Like Milton : So Firm In Religious Conviction, So Fierce In Politics, So High In Poetic Flight, So Grand In Style, So Great In Scholarship, So Beautiful In Appearance, So Overbearing In Attitude, So Stoical In Sufferance And All These Are At The Same Time. And All These Varied Facets Of Milton Have Variously Coloured The English Literature. Milton Is The Third Milestone In The History Of English Literature, The First And The Second Being Chaucer And Shakespeare, Respectively. Therefore, One'S Study Of English Literature Will, Certainly, Remain Incomplete So Long As One Is Not Acquainted With Milton'S Works.The Present Book May Be Treated As An Introduction To Milton. In It, All The Three Phases Of Milton'S Creative Life Have Been Highlighted : The Phase Of Early Or Minor Poems, The Phase Of Pamphleteering And The Phase Of The Epics And The Lone Drama. Special Treatments Have Been Accorded To The Poet'S Major Works : Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained And Samson Agonistes. And, Throughout The Book, Critical And Appreciative Attitudes Are Pervading.

Author : J. Wittreich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230601420

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Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings by J. Wittreich Pdf

Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.