Milton's Languages

Milton's Languages
Author: John K. Hale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1997-08-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521583535

Milton's poetry is one of the glories of the English language, and yet it owes everything to Milton's widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five. In Milton's Languages, John K. Hale first examines Milton's language-related arts in verse-composition, translations, annotations of Greek poets, Latin prose and political polemic, giving all relevant texts in the original and in translation. Hale then traces the impact of Milton's multilingualism on his major English poems. Many vexed questions of Milton studies are illuminated by this approach, including his sense of vocation, his attitude to print and publicity, the supposed blemish of Latinism in his poetry, and his response to his literary predecessors. Throughout this full-length study of Milton's use of languages, Hale argues convincingly that it is only by understanding Milton's choice among languages that we can grasp where Milton's own unique English originated.

John Milton's Paradise Lost, in Plain English

John Milton's Paradise Lost, in Plain English
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Here it is! Every professor's nightmare! Every student's dream come true! John Milton's overwhelming masterpiece, Paradise Lost - all 10,565 brain-busting lines of it, transformed into simple, everyday language! - the kind you and I speak and understand. Milton's poem is on each left hand page, and the Plain English version is across from it on the right. Corresponding numbered lines make for easy comparison. . . Milton made easy! A study aid like no other!

Milton Among Spaniards

Milton Among Spaniards
Author: Angelica Duran
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1644531739

Firmly grounded in literary studies but drawing on religious studies, translation studies, drama, and visual art, Milton among Spaniards is the first book-length exploration of the afterlife of John Milton in Spanish culture, illuminating underexamined Anglo-Hispanic cultural relations. This study calls attention to a series of powerful engagements by Spaniards with Milton’s works and legend, following a general chronology from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, tracing the overall story of Milton’s presence from indices of prohibited works during the Inquisition, through the many Spanish translations of Paradise Lost, to the author’s depiction on stage in the nineteenth-century play Milton, and finally to the representation of Paradise Lost by Spanish visual artists. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost

Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost
Author: Peter C. Herman
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603291636

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost addresses Milton in the light of the digital age, new critical approaches to his poem, and his continued presence in contemporary culture. It aims to help instructors enliven the teaching of Paradise Lost and address the challenges presented to students by the poem-- the early modern syntax and vocabulary, the political and theological contexts, and the abounding classical references. The first part of the volume, "Materials," evaluates the many available editions of the poem, points to relevant reference works, recommends additional reading, and outlines useful audiovisual and online aids for teaching Milton's epic poem. The essays in the second part, "Approaches," are grouped by several themes: literary and historical contexts, characters, poetics, critical approaches, classrooms, and performance. The essays cover epic conventions and literary and biblical allusions, new approaches such as ecocriticism and masculinity studies, and reading Milton on the Web, among other topics.

Milton's Language

Milton's Language
Author: Thomas N. Corns
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 143
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780631151456

Theological Milton

Theological Milton
Author: Michael Lieb
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

"Literature and theology are inextricably intertwined in this study of the figure of God as a literary character in the writings of John Milton"--Provided by publisher.