Milton: Political WritingsCambridge University Press, 21/02/1991 - 279 من الصفحات John Milton was not only the greatest English Renaissance poet but also devoted twenty years to prose writing in the advancement of religious, civil and political liberties. The height of his public career was as chief propagandist to the Commonwealth regime which came into being following the execution of King Charles I in 1649. The first of the two complete texts in this volume, The Tenure of Kings and the Magistrates, was easily the most radical justification of the regicide at the time. In the second, A Defence of the People of England, Milton undertook to vindicate the Commonwealth's cause to Europe as a whole. They are central to an understanding both of the development of Milton's political thought and the climax of the English Revolution itself. This is the first time that fully annotated versions have been published together in one volume, and incorporates a wholly new translation of the Defence. The introduction outlines the complexity of the ideological landscape which Milton had to negotiate, and in particular the points at which he departed radically from his sixteenth-century predecessors. Further aids to students include a full chronology of Milton's life and events, a select bibliography and biographies of persons mentioned in the text. |
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الصفحة xviii
... lord whose ' goverment , though not illegal , or intolerable ' is not ' free ' and is on that account alone ' to be ... Lords , but also more thoroughgoing proposals for reform like the version of the Levellers ' Agreement of the people ...
... lord whose ' goverment , though not illegal , or intolerable ' is not ' free ' and is on that account alone ' to be ... Lords , but also more thoroughgoing proposals for reform like the version of the Levellers ' Agreement of the people ...
الصفحة xix
... Lords and their later abolition , but , while admonishing the Presbyterians , reserves his severest criticism for the Independents . His denunciations of the regicides as religious fanatics focus on John Cook , who acted as solicitor ...
... Lords and their later abolition , but , while admonishing the Presbyterians , reserves his severest criticism for the Independents . His denunciations of the regicides as religious fanatics focus on John Cook , who acted as solicitor ...
الصفحة xxiii
... Lords , an undif- ferentiated mass which ought to be thought of not as the people but merely a rabble . Milton was naturally anxious to rebut the allegation that the social as well as the political order of things had been overthrown ...
... Lords , an undif- ferentiated mass which ought to be thought of not as the people but merely a rabble . Milton was naturally anxious to rebut the allegation that the social as well as the political order of things had been overthrown ...
الصفحة xxiv
... ( p . 214 ) . Given that the bishops and lords had been later additions to , and not constituent parts of , this body , it did not matter if they had now been abolished . And the objection that there was no mention of a xxiv Introduction.
... ( p . 214 ) . Given that the bishops and lords had been later additions to , and not constituent parts of , this body , it did not matter if they had now been abolished . And the objection that there was no mention of a xxiv Introduction.
الصفحة xxvii
... Lords for examination ( 28th ) . 1645 March : publishes ( 4th ) final divorce tracts , Tetrachordon and Colasterion . Apparently shuns all public controversy for the next four years . 1646 January : Poems of Mr. John Milton appears ...
... Lords for examination ( 28th ) . 1645 March : publishes ( 4th ) final divorce tracts , Tetrachordon and Colasterion . Apparently shuns all public controversy for the next four years . 1646 January : Poems of Mr. John Milton appears ...
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