The Cambridge Companion to MiltonDennis Danielson 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 social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies. |
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... thatthe author 'was lov'd and admir'd by the whole University, particularly by the Fellows and most Ingenious Persons of his House'. When Milton left Cambridge, Phillips claims, it caused 'nosmall trouble' to his 'FellowCollegiates, who ...
... thatthe author 'was lov'd and admir'd by the whole University, particularly by the Fellows and most Ingenious Persons of his House'. When Milton left Cambridge, Phillips claims, it caused 'nosmall trouble' to his 'FellowCollegiates, who ...
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... that The Reason of ChurchGovernment waspublished, an anonymous author lashed out at the 'grim, lowring, bitter fool' who hadwritten Animadversions. Three months later, Milton responded withAn Apology Against a Pamphlet Called A Modest ...
... that The Reason of ChurchGovernment waspublished, an anonymous author lashed out at the 'grim, lowring, bitter fool' who hadwritten Animadversions. Three months later, Milton responded withAn Apology Against a Pamphlet Called A Modest ...
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... that the Powells owed him, he agreed shortly after his wife's return to have her mother, father, and an unknown number ofher brothers and sisterstemporarily sharehis new house inBarbican. Alongwith the poet's father, and soon afterwards ...
... that the Powells owed him, he agreed shortly after his wife's return to have her mother, father, and an unknown number ofher brothers and sisterstemporarily sharehis new house inBarbican. Alongwith the poet's father, and soon afterwards ...
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... that the government later deemed blasphemous and dangerous, he was disregarding the government's interests in favour of his own beliefs. But because there is solittle evidencecorroborating Aitzema's secondhand account, weoughtto ...
... that the government later deemed blasphemous and dangerous, he was disregarding the government's interests in favour of his own beliefs. But because there is solittle evidencecorroborating Aitzema's secondhand account, weoughtto ...
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... thatthe author and his children did notget along well. Amaidservant remembered thatMilton's daughtersstole someof their father's books and had encouraged her tocheat him. On another occasion, when the maidservant told Anne Milton of her ...
... thatthe author and his children did notget along well. Amaidservant remembered thatMilton's daughtersstole someof their father's books and had encouraged her tocheat him. On another occasion, when the maidservant told Anne Milton of her ...
Contents
Lycidas | |
the future poet | |
Miltons politics MARTIN DZELZAINIS | |
THOMAS N CORNS 7 Miltons sonnets and his contemporaries | |
Language and knowledgeinParadise Lost | |
The Fall and Miltons theodicy | |
Milton and the reforming spirit | |
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Reading Samson Agonistes | |
JOAN S BENNETT 16 Miltons readers | |
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Index | |
Milton and the sexes | |
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