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A preface to Paradise lost more books like this

by C. S. Lewis

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Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism

Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism more books like this

by John Milton, Scott Elledge (Editor)

This is the second edition of the "Norton Critical Edition" of Milton's "Paradise Lost". It represents an extensive revision of the first edition. The text of the poem remains that of Milton's 1674 edition, retaining the original punctuation but with modernized spelling and italics. Material for the study of contemporary religious and political ...

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The Cambridge Companion to Milton

The Cambridge Companion to Milton more books like this

by Dennis Richard Danielson (Editor)

An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the ...

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Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton

Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton more books like this

by Leah S Marcus, Marcus Leah

Many readers and students do not recognise the extent to which modern standard editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and other Renaissance authors have been filtered through eighteenth-century and Victorian sensibilities. In Unediting the Renaissance Leah Marcus reveals the vast array of possibilities opened up by 'unediting' these texts. With ...

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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot more books like this

by Anna Beer

John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the great epic Paradise Lost and of numerous sonnets and other works, from Comus and Lycidas to Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Of all the major English poets, John Milton was by far the most deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time, writing a series of ...

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Paradise Lost: Notes

Paradise Lost: Notes more books like this

by Roy C Flannagan, Ph.D., James L Roberts, PH.D. (Editor), Gary K Carey, M.A. (Editor)

-- Offers a traditional CliffNotes "TM" treatment of a literary novel, with updated and new content. -- Includes Life and Background of the Author, Introduction to the Novel, A Brief Synopsis, List of Characters, Critical Commentaries, Glossaries, Character Analyses, and Critical Essays. -- Enhanced by collaboration with Webster's New World "TM" ...

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John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought more books like this

by Gordon Campbell, Professor Thomas N Corns

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism ...

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Milton's Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority

Milton's Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority more books like this

by Stephen M Fallon

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A Preface to Paradise Lost: Being the Ballard Matthews Lectures Delivered at University College, North Wales, 1941

A Preface to Paradise Lost: Being the Ballard Matthews Lectures Delivered at University College, North Wales, 1941 more books like this

by C S Lewis

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Milton and the English revolution more books like this

by Christopher Hill

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Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham

Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham more books like this

by Dr. Blair Worden

In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile ...

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John Milton

John Milton more books like this

by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor)

Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of John Milton, author of "Paradise Lost". Include are essays by Angus Fletcher (on "Comus"), William Empson, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Bloom himself ("Milton and His Precursors" from "A Map of Misreading").

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Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" more books like this

by Gustave Dore, John Milton

Gustave Dore's romantic style of illustration, imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem PARADISE LOST--recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan--were among Dore's finest works. This volume presents superb black ...

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A Preface to Milton: Revised Edition: Preface Books Series more books like this

by Lois Potter

A highly readable and illustrated introduction to the work of Milton, which provides both a biographical account of the poet and his influences, and a critical survey of his poetry.

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Milton, Spenser, and the Epic Tradition more books like this

by Patrick J. Cook

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Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity more books like this

by Professor Jeffrey Shoulson

Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth between Milton's writings and Jewish writings of the first ...

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Paradise Lost and the Rise of the American Republic more books like this

by Lydia Dittler Schulman

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John Milton more books like this

by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

This biography of John Milton (1608-1674) emphasizes his early political opinions and offers a close reading of his oeuvre that illuminates his Protestant republicanism.

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Milton, Poet of Duality: A Study of Semiosis in the Poetry and the Prose more books like this

by R A Shoaf

With a new preface that places this book in the context of recent theory-oriented studies of Milton, R.A. Shoaf explores the connections between modern literary criticism and Renaissance poetry, focusing on rhetoric and rhetorical devices as instances - not just agents - of Milton's complex theological argument. Heeding the poet's concern for ...

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The Poetical Works of John Milton more books like this

by John Milton

Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton's poetic vision. In the early parts of "Paradise Lost", he manages to convey ...

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Milton in American more books like this

by Peter Ackroyd

John Milton, aging, blind, fleeing the restoration of English monarchy, comes to New England where he soon becomes the leader of the Puritans. Ackroyd has crafted an enjoyable novel that entertains while raising provocative questions--this time about America's founding myths.

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A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden & the Visual Arts more books like this

by Diane K McColley

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New England Milton more books like this

by Kevin P Van Anglen

This text examines the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists and demonstrates that his reception was a function of their response as members of New England elite to older and broader socio-political tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent modernisation.

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How Milton Works more books like this

by Stanley Fish

In this volume the celebrated Milton critic regards Milton's entire body of work in terms of morality, presenting the embodiment of good as invulnerable to chaos and crisis.

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Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination more books like this

by David Loewenstein

How did Milton's understanding of history relate to his literary expression of it? This book explores the role of history in Milton's literary works. It focuses on the writer's imaginative responses to the historical process - his interpretations of the past, visions of the future, and sense of the contemporary historical moment. David Loewenstein ...

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