Milton's Legacy

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Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham
Susquehanna University Press, 2005 - 257 من الصفحات
In The Reason of Church Government, a thirty-three-year-old John Milton writes of his hope that by labour and intent study... joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. Even the young Milton, committed as he was to achieving a place in the annals of poetic history, might have been surprised by the strenuous efforts in aftertimes to keep his legacy alive. The fifteen essays that comprise this collection focus, from varied perspectives, on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and A Mask, poems that have attracted sustained critical attention. Several consider shorter poems, such as the Nativity Ode, The Passion, Upon the Circumcision, and Sonnet 14. Some pursue issues of sources, authorship, and audience, while still others probe extant biographical records or reflect on the author as biographical subject. Diverse though they are in subject matter, approaches, and emphases, all demonstrate how Milton scholarship in the twenty-first century continues to be committed to not willingly let ting] Milton's literary legacy die. Kristin A. Brothers University. Charles W. Durham is professor emeritus of English at Middle Tennessee State University, and is president of the Milton Society of America.

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Introduction
13
Raphaels Role in Paradise Lost
33
Hierarchy Alterity and Freedom in Paradise Lost
50
Paradise Regained
83
Nietzsche for Girls
116
Miltons Sonnet 14 and Puritan Funeral Sermons for Women
136
Composing 1629
149
Miltons Ideal Readers
191
Notes on Contributors
248
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الصفحة 57 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all : And worthy seemed ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed,) 294 VVhence true authority in men...
الصفحة 171 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
الصفحة 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
الصفحة 63 - Time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare; And from these corporal nutriments, perhaps, Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit, Improved by tract of time, and wing'd ascend, Ethereal, as we ; or may, at choice, Here or in heavenly paradises dwell, If ye be found obedient, and retain, Unalterably firm, his love entire, Whose progeny you are. Meanwhile enjoy Your fill, what happiness this happy state Can comprehend, incapable of more.
الصفحة 108 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
الصفحة 13 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
الصفحة 126 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court /My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
الصفحة 41 - Wonder not then, what God for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance ; time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare : And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit, Improv'd by tract of time, and wing'd ascend Ethereal...

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