Milton's Comus

Milton's Comus PDF Author: John Milton
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Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Milton's Comus

Milton's Comus PDF Author: John Milton
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Pages : 150

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Lady in the Labyrinth

Lady in the Labyrinth PDF Author: William Shullenberger
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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The book's study of Milton's identification with his female hero, and his advocacy of women's ethical, sexual, and political autonomy, gives a jolt to ongoing debates about Milton and feminism"--Book jacket

Arcades

Arcades PDF Author: John Milton
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Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost PDF Author: John Milton
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Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Scenes from Comus

Scenes from Comus PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Penguin UK
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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SCENES FROM COMUS is the new sequence of poems from Britain's most original and ferocious modern prophet, Geoffrey Hill. In the words of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Hill remains for me the supreme voice of the last few decades The recent work, telegraphic, angry and unconsoled, at once assertive and self-dispossessing, is extraordinary'

Milton's Minor Poems

Milton's Minor Poems PDF Author: John Milton
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Machiavellian Rhetoric

Machiavellian Rhetoric PDF Author: Victoria Kahn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is not simply the result of a naïve misreading of Machiavelli but is attuned to the rhetorical dimension of his political theory in a way that later thematic readings of Machiavelli are not. Her aim is to provide a revised history of Renaissance Machiavellism, particularly in England: one that sees the Machiavel and the republican as equally valid--and related--readings of Machiavelli's work. In this revised history, Machiavelli offers a rhetoric for dealing with the realm of de facto political power, rather than a political theory with a coherent thematic content; and Renaissance Machiavellism includes a variety of rhetorically sophisticated appreciations and appropriations of Machiavelli's own rhetorical approach to politics. Part I offers readings of The Prince, The Discourses, and Counter-Reformation responses to Machiavelli. Part II discusses the reception of Machiavelli in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England. Part III focuses on Milton, especially Areopagitica, Comus, and Paradise Lost.

The Satanic Epic

The Satanic Epic PDF Author: Neil Forsyth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691113395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was "of the Devils party" even though he set out "to justify the ways of God to men." In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque PDF Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594363
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

Gifts and Graces

Gifts and Graces PDF Author: David Gay
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487505280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.