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Author | : John Leonard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2016-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107059852 |
Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.
Author | : John Leonard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2016-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131653121X |
In The Value of Milton, leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose. Milton's work includes one of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary canon, yet he remains impressively popular with general readers. Leonard demonstrates why Milton has enduring value for our own time, both as a defender of political liberty and as a poet of sublimity and terror who also exhibits moments of genuine humanity and compassion. A poet divided against himself, Milton offers different rewards to different readers. The Value of Milton examines not only the significance of his most celebrated verse but also the function of biblical allegory, classical culture, and the moods, voice and language that give Milton's writings their perennial appeal.
Author | : Stanley Eugene Fish |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674004658 |
Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a formidable critic and the definitive statement on Milton for our time. How Milton works "from the inside out" is the foremost concern of Fish's book, which explores the radical effect of Milton's theological convictions on his poetry and prose. For Milton the value of a poem or of any other production derives from the inner worth of its author and not from any external measure of excellence or heroism. Milton's aesthetic, says Fish, is an "aesthetic of testimony": every action, whether verbal or physical, is or should be the action of holding fast to a single saving commitment against the allure of plot, narrative, representation, signs, drama--anything that might be construed as an illegitimate supplement to divine truth. Much of the energy of Milton's writing, according to Fish, comes from the effort to maintain his faith against these temptations, temptations which in any other aesthetic would be seen as the very essence of poetic value. Encountering the great poet on his own terms, engaging his equally distinguished admirers and detractors, this book moves a 300-year debate about the significance of Milton's verse to a new level.
Author | : John Milton |
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Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1817 |
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Author | : John Milton |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Milton Rokeach |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1439118884 |
This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values.
Author | : Jamie Bosse |
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Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2018-12-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781790751464 |
Milton is learning to be smart with his money. Milton learns how to identify the coins in his piggy bank and their value. He knows that you have to work to earn money, and quickly learns that sometimes you have to wait to get what you really want. Should he buy a yummy dog bone with the money he has now or wait and save more to buy some scrumptious bacon? What will he choose?
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 1410 |
Release | : 2009-10-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307419487 |
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts, expert commentary, and a wealth of other features that will please even the most dedicated students of Milton’s canon. Edited by a trio of esteemed scholars, this volume is the definitive Milton for our time. In these pages you will find all of Milton’s verse, from masterpieces such as Paradise Lost–widely viewed as the finest epic poem in the English language–to shorter works such as the Nativity Ode, Lycidas,, A Masque and Samson Agonistes. Milton’s non-English language sonnets, verses, and elegies are accompanied by fresh translations by Gordon Braden. Among the newly edited and authoritatively annotated prose selections are letters, pamphlets, political tracts, essays such as Of Education and Areopagitica, and a generous portion of his heretical Christian Doctrine. These works reveal Milton’s passionate advocacy of controversial positions during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth and Restoration periods. With his deep learning and the sensual immediacy of his language, Milton creates for us a unique bridge to the cultures of classical antiquity and medieval and Renaissance Christianity. With this in mind, the editors give careful attention to preserving the vibrant energy of Milton’s verse and prose, while making the relatively unfamiliar aspects of his writing accessible to modern readers. Notes identify the old meanings and roots of English words, illuminate historical contexts–including classical and biblical allusions–and offer concise accounts of the author’s philosophical and political assumptions. This edition is a consummate work of modern literary scholarship.
Author | : John Milton |
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Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1829 |
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Author | : Joe Moshenska |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1541620690 |
An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring. In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image. Immersing ourselves in the rhythms and textures of Milton’s world, we move from the music of his childhood home to his encounter with Galileo in Florence into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination. Making Darkness Light will change the way we think about Milton, the place of his writings in his life, and his life in history. It is also a book about Milton’s place in our times: about our relationship with the Western canon, about why and how we read, and about what happens when we let someone else’s ideas inflect our own.