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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820517803321

Autore

Shawcross John T.

Titolo

John Milton : the self and the world / / John T. Shawcross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

0-8131-5791-9

0-8131-7014-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Studies in the English Renaissance

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

Poets, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Psychology

Psychoanalysis and literature - England

Poetry - Psychological aspects

Self in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Roots of  Being: Some Problems in Milton's Biography; 2. A Biographical and Literary Overview to 1645; 3. The Lady of  Christ's; 4. Decision to Become a  Poet; 5. Preparations; 6. The Left Hand and the Great Purpose; 7. Education as Means; 8. Covenant: Sacred and Profaned; 9. Moves toward the Great Purpose; 10. A Biographical and Literary Overview  to 1674; 11. Interferences of the Self; 12. The Personal World: Man and Woman; 13. Further Interferences of the Self; 14. The Political Dimension; 15. The Religious Precept; 16. The Bible

17. Milton and 1674Appendix A: The Commonplace Book; Appendix B: Languages in the Commonplace Book; Appendix C: Dating of the Plans; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of the person Milton -- the man whose poetic and prose works have been deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings? John Shawcross's ""different"" biography depicts the man against a psychological backdrop that brings into relief who he was -- in his works and from his works.While the theories of Freud, Lacan, Kohut, and others underlie this pursuit of Milton's ""self,"" Jung and some of



his followers provide the basic understanding by which Shawcross places Milton in the panorama of history. His explorations o