Milton's Creation

Milton's Creation
Author: Harry Blamires
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429624468

First published in 1971. The intention of Milton’s Creation is to provide the student with a simple and direct entry into Paradise Lost. The author is not concerned with taking sides in critical controversy. His aim is to elucidate Milton’s primary meanings; this is a work of exegesis, not of interpretation. In this new book, on arguably the greatest epic in the English language, the central substance of Milton’s ‘great Argument’ is articulated with great clarity. By keeping in mind the epic status and universality common to Paradise Lost and Ulysses, the author introduces a post-Joycean perspective into his vision of Milton’s Creation.

The Complete Poems and Major Prose

The Complete Poems and Major Prose
Author: John Milton
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 1081
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1624665853

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost
Author: William Poole
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674971078

William Poole recounts Milton's life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole explores how Milton’s life and preoccupations inform the poem itself—its structure, content, and meaning.

Shattering the Myths of Darwinism

Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
Author: Richard Milton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-04-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544643076

Compelling evidence that the most important assumptions on which Darwinism rests are scientifically wrong. The controversial best-seller that sent Oxford University and Nature magazine into a frenzy. Shattering the Myths of Darwinism exposes the gaping holes in an ideology that has reigned unchallenged over the scientific world for a century. Darwinism is considered to be hard fact, the only acceptable explanation for the formation of life on Earth, but with keen insight and objectivity Richard Milton reveals that the theory totters atop a shambles of outdated and circumstantial evidence which in any less controversial field would have been questioned long ago. Sticking to the facts at hand and tackling a vast array of topics, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism offers compelling evidence that the theory of evolution has become an act of faith rather than a functioning science, and that not until the scientific method is applied to it and the right questions are asked will we ever get true answers to the mystery of life on Earth.

Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution

Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-11-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107033608

This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are "world[s] / Of destined habitation." Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.

Remembering and Repeating

Remembering and Repeating
Author: Regina M. Schwartz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1993-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226742014

In this graceful and compelling book, Regina Schwartz presents a powerful reading of Paradise Lost by tracing the structure of the poem to the pattern of "repeated beginnings" found in the Bible. In both works, the world order is constantly threatened by chaos. By drawing on both the Bible and the more contemporary works of, among others, Freud, Lacan, Ricoeur, Said, and Derrida, Schwartz argues that chaos does not simply threaten order, but rather, chaos inheres in order. "A brilliant study that quietly but powerfully recharacterizes many of the contexts of discussion in Milton criticism. Particularly noteworthy is Schwartz's ability to introduce advanced theoretical perspectives without ever taking the focus of attention away from the dynamics and problematics of Milton's poem."—Stanley Fish