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Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780709935209
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)
Download or read book John Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic written by Charles Martindale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1986 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 1853996505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic written by Charles Martindale and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton has long been recognised as being among English poets most indebted to ancient literature. Here Martindale examines the use Milton made of other ancient poets, notably Homer, Ovid and Lucan, and finds some surprising elements in the style of "Paradise Lost".
Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521539791
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Milton: Paradise Lost written by David Loewenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis, and shapes his ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of the Fall. The book considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology, while situating Milton's great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts. A concluding chapter addresses the influence of Milton's sublime poem as a source of creative inspiration for later writers, from the Restoration to the Romantics. Finally, the volume offers an extremely useful and updated guide to further reading, which students will find invaluable.
Author : Jonathon Shears
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882430
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost written by Jonathon Shears and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.
Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191559067
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume II written by Laura Lunger Knoppers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together literary criticism, historical bibliography, and religious, political, and print history, this volume offers a definitive scholarly edition of John Milton's Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes. The scrupulously-edited text is based on extensive collation of the 1671 and 1680 volumes. Drawing on new archival sources and up-to-date historiography, a detailed Introduction sets out the cultural, religious, and political contexts of 1670-71, including continuing opposition to the Restoration regime and the major contribution made to that opposition by publishers and print. While the meanings of the 1671 poems have been much discussed and debated, print and publishing history has been little addressed in teaching editions or scholarship. New archival materials on Milton's publisher, John Starkey, and his printer, John Macock, open up the radical print networks in which Milton's poems were produced, published, and circulated. The Textual Introduction and Headnote also provide a thorough discussion of the contributions of the printing house to the text. Reconstruction of the octavo sheets used in printing the text shows that multiple compositors worked on the text and thus helps to explain variant spelling and address longstanding issues of dating. A discussion of Milton's bold transformation of classical epic and tragedy provides literary historical context. This edition also breaks new ground by including materials on early owners and readers, who actively shaped the texts with corrections, annotations, and references to biblical and classical sources. As an aid for students and scholars alike, Textual Commentary provides precise OED word definitions, identifies biblical, classical, historical, and geographical references, and explains Latin, Greek, and Hebrew usages. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Milton, of Renaissance literature, of print and publishing history, of history of the book, and of early modern cultural, political, and religious history.
Author : Noam Reisner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748646094
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' written by Noam Reisner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noam Reisner leads readers through the complexities of Milton's celebrated and challenging narrative poem as well as introducing them to the key critical views. The guide combines an introduction to the poem's main thematic and stylistic concerns together with discussion of important selected passages (substantial extracts from the text are included) and provides readers with a basic set of critical tools with which to interpret the text.
Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199219818
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.
Author : Margaret Kean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797094
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book John Milton's Paradise Lost written by Margaret Kean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness. Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook: * outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost * completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period * examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism * reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work * provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text * suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem. With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise Lost' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was first published in the year 1667. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men".
Author : Christopher Bond
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611490677
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero written by Christopher Bond and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early modern England, the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines how Spenser and Milton adapted the pattern of dual heroism developed in classical and Medieval works. Challenging the opposition between 'Calvinist,' 'allegorical' Spenser and 'Arminian,' 'dramatic' Milton, this book offers a new understanding of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019549636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work of English literature by John Milton is widely regarded as one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. With its sweeping scope, vivid imagery, and intense emotional power, Paradise Lost tells the story of the fall of man, weaving together themes of sin, redemption, and the struggle between good and evil. This edition includes Milton's original text, along with extensive footnotes and critical commentary to help readers fully appreciate this masterpiece of English literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. Martin Evans
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724010
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Milton's Imperial Epic written by J. Martin Evans and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the literature of exploration and colonialism. The primary sources on which he draws range from sermons about the New World justifying colonization and exhorting virtue among colonists to promotional pamphlets designed to lure people and investment into the colonies. Evans's research allows him to create a richly textured picture of anxiety and optimism, guilt and moral certitude. The central question is whether Milton supported England's colonization or covertly attempted to subvert it. In contrast to those who attribute to Paradise Lost a specific political agenda for the American colonies, Evans maintains that Milton reflects the complexity and ambivalence of attitudes held by English society. Analyzing Paradise Lost against this background, Evans offers a new perspective on such fundamental issues as the narrator's shifting stance in the poem, the unique character of Milton's prelapsarian paradise, and the moral and intellectual status of Adam and Eve before and after the fall. From Satan's arrival in Hell to the expulsion from the garden of Eden, Milton's version of the Genesis myth resonates with the complex thematics of Renaissance colonialism.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720917380
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise Lost by John Milton. Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.
Author : J. Christopher Warner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026801
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton written by J. Christopher Warner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of Renaissance epics both famous and forgotten—from Milton's Paradise Lost to a Latin Christiad by his near-contemporary, Alexander Ross—thereby shedding new light on the development of the epic genre. For advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of Italian, English, and Comparative literatures as well as the Classics and the history of religion and literature.
Author : Mary C. Fenton
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 1575911523
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Their Maker's Image written by Mary C. Fenton and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317762177
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book John Milton written by John Milton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition of Milton's later work rk includes the text of six books of Paradise Lost, The History of Britain and the whole of Samson Agonistes. Through his introduction, commmentary and full annotations, Tony Davies sets the works in their political and cultural contexts, and discusses such themes as the `heroic'; sexuality and gender; and Milton's interrogation of the meaning of history.
Author : A. Johns-Putra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595723
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The History of the Epic written by A. Johns-Putra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.
