Lewalski The Life of John Milton

A Critical Biography
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77684-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 816 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose andpoetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a ratherdifferent Milton from that in earlier accounts.
* * Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetryworks.
* Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciouslyconstruct himself as an 'author'.
* Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewalski, Barbara

Lewalski, Barbara K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations.
1. 'The childhood shews the man" (1608-1625).
2. "To Cambridge . . . for seven years" (1625-1632).
3. "Studious Retirement": Hammersmith and Horton(1632-1638).
4. "I became desirous . . . of seeing foreign parts, especiallyItaly" (1638-1639).
5. "All mouths were opened against . . . the bishops"(1639-1642).
6. "Domestic or Personal Liberty" (1642-1645).
7. "Service . . . Between Private Walls" (1645-1649).
8. "The so-called Council of State . . . desired to employ myservices" (1649- 1652).
9. "Tireless . . . for the sake of Liberty" (1652-1654).
10. "I . . . still bear up and steer/ Right onward"(1654-1658).
11 "The last words of our expiring libertie" (1658-1660).
12 "In darknes, and with dangers compast round" (1660-1665).
13. "Higher Argument": Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost(1665-1669).
14. "To try, and teach the erring Soul" (1669-1674).
Epilogue: "Something ... Written to Aftertimes.".
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Lewalski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Harvard University. She has been named honored scholar by the Milton Society of America, and has served as President of that organization and of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her numerous publications include Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of "Paradise Regained" (1966), Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric (1979, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association), Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985), Writing Women in Jacobean England (1993), and The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (editor, 1996).