LEADER 03889nam 2200589 450 001 9910795765903321 005 20230222185430.0 010 $a9781503633308$b(ebook) 010 $z9781503632707$b(cloth) 010 $a1-5036-3330-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503633308 035 $a(CKB)5600000000473460 035 $a(DE-B1597)641537 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503633308 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29972923 035 $a(OCoLC)1350571110 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000473460 100 $a20230201d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading John Milton $ehow to persist in troubled times /$fStephen B. Dobranski 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aStanford, CA :$cStanford University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $axxiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 311 08$aPrint version: Dobranski, Stephen B. Reading John Milton Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 9781503632707 (DLC) 2022004022 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The power of language : "These defenseless doors" -- Personal loss : "Weep no more" -- Combating injustice : "Need not Kings to make them happy" -- Physical suffering : "Only stand and wait" -- Free speech : "Precious lifeblood" -- Arrogance : "Pride and worse ambition" -- Forgiveness : "Hand in hand with wand'ring steps" -- Resisting temptation : "He who reigns within himself" -- Doubt : "Strenuous liberty" -- Surviving disaster : "By small / Accomplishing great things" -- Epilogue. 330 $a"A captivating biography that celebrates the audacious, inspiring life and works of John Milton, revealing how he speaks to our times. John Milton is unrivalled--for the music of his verse and the breadth of his learning. In this brisk, topical, and inspiring biography, Stephen B. Dobranski brushes the scholarly dust from the portrait of the artist to reveal Milton's essential humanity and his unwavering commitment to ideals--freedom of religion and the right and responsibility of all persons to think for themselves--that are still relevant and necessary in our times. Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost , is considered by many to be English poetry's masterpiece. Samuel Johnson, not one for effusive praise, claimed that "from his books alone the Art of English Poetry might be learned." But, Milton's renown rests on more than his artistic achievements. In a time of convulsive political turmoil, he justified the killing of a king, pioneered free speech, and publicly defended divorce. He was, in short, an iconoclast, an independent, even revolutionary, thinker. He was also an imperfect man--acrimonious, sometimes mean. Above all, he understood adversity. Afflicted by blindness, illness, and political imprisonment, Milton always sought to "bear up and steer right onward" through life's hardships. Dobranski looks beyond Milton's academic standing, beyond his reputation as a dour and devout purist, to reveal the ongoing power of his works and the dauntless courage that he both wrote about and exemplified"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPoets, English$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$vBiography 610 $aBritish civil wars. 610 $aCharles I. 610 $aJohn Milton. 610 $aOliver Cromwell. 610 $aParadise Lost. 610 $aearly modern England. 610 $aepic poetry. 610 $afree will. 610 $agrit (or resilience). 610 $aseventeenth century. 615 0$aPoets, English 676 $a821/.4 700 $aDobranski$b Stephen B.$0296083 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910795765903321 996 $aReading John Milton$93808702 997 $aUNINA