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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876590303321

Titolo

A concise companion to Milton / / edited by Angelica Duran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-4443-6178-3

1-78268-441-7

1-280-85099-X

9786610850990

0-470-76050-8

1-4051-6868-4

0-470-75777-9

1-4051-7850-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

DuranAngelica

Disciplina

821.4

821/.4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors; Introduction Angelica Duran; Part I Surveys; Chapter 1 A Reading of His "left hand": Milton's Prose Robert Thomas Fallon; Chapter 2 "Shedding sweet influence": The Legacy of John Milton's Works John T.Shawcross; Chapter 3 "The world all before [us]": More than Three Hundred Years of Criticism Roy Flannagan; Part II Textual Sites; Chapter 4 First and Last Fruits of Education: The Companion Poems, Epistola, and Educational Prose Works Angelica Duran; Chapter 5 Milton's Heroic Sonnets Annabel Patterson; Chapter 6 The Lives of Lycidas Paul Alpers

Chapter 7 A Mask: Tradition and Innovation Katsuhiro EngetsuChapter 8 The Bible, Religion, and Spirituality in Paradise Lost Achsah Guibbory; Chapter 9 Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Paradise Karen L. Edwards; Chapter 10 The Ecology of Paradise Lost Juliet Lucy Cummins; Chapter 11 The Messianic Vision of Paradise Regained David Gay; Chapter 12 The Nightmare of History: Samson Agonistes Louis Schwartz; Part III



Reference Points; Select Chronology "Speak of things at hand/ Useful" Compiled by Edward Jones; Select Bibliography "Much arguing, much writing, many opinions" Compiled by J.Martin Evans

Index

Sommario/riassunto

With brevity, depth, and accessibility, this book helps readers to appreciate the works of John Milton, and to understand the great influence they have had on literature and other disciplines.Presents new and authoritative essays by internationally respected Milton scholarsExplains how and why Milton's works established their central place in the English literary canonStructured chronologically around Milton's major worksAlso includes a select bibliography and a chronology detailing Milton's life and works alongside relevant world eventsIdeal as a first critical wor