Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost write by William Poole. This book was released on 2017-10-09. Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism
Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism write by David A. Harper. This book was released on 2023-12-20. Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy. Milton’s earliest readers and critics (Dryden, Addison, Dennis, Hume, and Bentley) confronted a poem and author at odds with prevailing culture and the revanchist conservatism of the restored monarchy. Grappling with the epic required navigating Milton’s reputation as a “fanatick” who had called in print for Charles I’s execution, inveighed openly against monarchy on the eve of Charles II’s return, and held heretical views on the trinity, baptism, and divorce. Harper argues that foundational figures in English literary criticism rose to this challenge by innovating new ways of reading: producing creative (and subversive) rewritings of Paradise Lost, articulating new theories of the sublime, explaining the poem in the first substantial body of annotations for an English vernacular text, and by pioneering early forms of textual criticism and editing.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise Lost write by John Milton. This book was released on 1711. Paradise Lost available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Paradise Lost, Book 3
Paradise Lost, Book 3 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise Lost, Book 3 write by John Milton. This book was released on 1915. Paradise Lost, Book 3 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Making Darkness Light
Making Darkness Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Darkness Light write by Joe Moshenska. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Making Darkness Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being. Revolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more. Making Darkness Light shows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem Paradise Lost. It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. This is a book about Milton, that also speaks to why we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.
