Book Description
Lee Morrissey explores how Milton's major late poems narrate varying responses to modernity: adjustment, avoidance, and antagonism.
Author : Lee Morrissey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009197088
Lee Morrissey explores how Milton's major late poems narrate varying responses to modernity: adjustment, avoidance, and antagonism.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307419487
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts, expert commentary, and a wealth of other features that will please even the most dedicated students of Milton’s canon. Edited by a trio of esteemed scholars, this volume is the definitive Milton for our time. In these pages you will find all of Milton’s verse, from masterpieces such as Paradise Lost–widely viewed as the finest epic poem in the English language–to shorter works such as the Nativity Ode, Lycidas,, A Masque and Samson Agonistes. Milton’s non-English language sonnets, verses, and elegies are accompanied by fresh translations by Gordon Braden. Among the newly edited and authoritatively annotated prose selections are letters, pamphlets, political tracts, essays such as Of Education and Areopagitica, and a generous portion of his heretical Christian Doctrine. These works reveal Milton’s passionate advocacy of controversial positions during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth and Restoration periods. With his deep learning and the sensual immediacy of his language, Milton creates for us a unique bridge to the cultures of classical antiquity and medieval and Renaissance Christianity. With this in mind, the editors give careful attention to preserving the vibrant energy of Milton’s verse and prose, while making the relatively unfamiliar aspects of his writing accessible to modern readers. Notes identify the old meanings and roots of English words, illuminate historical contexts–including classical and biblical allusions–and offer concise accounts of the author’s philosophical and political assumptions. This edition is a consummate work of modern literary scholarship.
Author : Gordon Teskey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674286766
John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe: poets who achieve a total ethical and spiritual vision of the world. In this panoramic interpretation, the distinguished Milton scholar Gordon Teskey shows how the poet’s changing commitments are subordinated to an aesthetic that joins beauty to truth and value to ethics. The art of poetry is rediscovered by Milton as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be. Milton’s early poems include the heroic Nativity Ode; the seductive paired poems “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso”; the mythological pageant Comus, with its comically diabolical enchanter and its serious debate on the human use of nature; and “Lycidas,” perhaps the greatest short poem in English and a prophecy of vast human displacements in the modern world. Teskey follows Milton’s creative development in three phases, from the idealistic transcendence of the poems written in his twenties to the political engagement of the gritty, hard-hitting poems of his middle years. The third phase is that of “transcendental engagement,” in the heaven-storming epic Paradise Lost, and the great works that followed it: the intense intellectual debate Paradise Regained, and the tragedy Samson Agonistes.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1421400782
In this collection, esteemed poet and translator David R. Slavitt brings to life John Milton’s Latin poetry with deft, imaginative modern English translations. While Milton is recognized as one of the most learned English poets in history, his Latin poetry is less well known. Slavitt’s careful rendering brings Milton’s Latin poems—many written in his late teens—into the present. He keeps true to the style of the originals, showing Milton’s maturing poetic voice and the freedom he found working in Latin. On the Gunpowder Plot O, sly Guy Fawkes, you plotted against your king and the British lords, but did you intend to be kind and make up for your malice in this thing with at least a show of piety? Do we find an intention, perhaps, of sending the members of court up to the sky in a chariot made of fire the way Elijah traveled. Or do I distort the simple wickedness of your desire? Featuring an introduction by Gordon Teskey, this comprehensive English-language collection of Milton’s Latin poems pays due respect to a master. Poetry lovers, Milton fans, and scholars of either will welcome, enjoy, and learn from this work.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781020358388
This collection of poems showcases Milton's poetic genius in all its glory. From the hauntingly beautiful 'Lycidas' to the stirring patriotic anthem 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont', these poems demonstrate Milton's mastery of language and form. With rich imagery, profound insights, and impeccable craftsmanship, Milton's Minor Poems are a treasure trove of literary excellence. This book is a must-read for poetry lovers and scholars alike. 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 : John Milton
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 1827
Category : English essays
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Author : W. Menzies
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
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Author : John Milton
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1711
Category : Bible
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Author : John Milton
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
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ISBN : 9781073129461
This collection of classic John Milton poems includes the following: Preface Outlines of the Life of Milton TEXT: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity On Shakespeare L'Allegro Il Penseroso Arcades At a Solemn Music Comus Lycidas Sonnets: I. To the Nightingale II. On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City IX. To a Virtuous Young Lady X. To the Lady Margaret Ley XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs XV. On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652 XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger XVIII. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont XIX. On his Blindness XX. To Mr. Lawrence XXI. To Cyriack Skinner XXII. To the Same XXIII.
Author : Burton Raffel
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 1421 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1999-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553581104
Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of The Annotated Milton encompasses the monumental sweep of John Milton’s poetry. Here are Milton’ s early works, including his first great poem, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,” the light and lyrical “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” the masque Comus, and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy “Lycidas.” Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Milton’s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.