Poet of Revolution (eBook)

The Making of John Milton

Nicholas McDowell (Autor)

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2020
504 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20912-8 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton's literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost-but would first justify the killing of a king.Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "e;Nativity Ode,"e; "e;L'Allegro"e; and "e;Il Penseroso,"e; Comus, and "e;Lycidas."e;Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Allusion • Amores (Ovid) • Andrew Marvell • anti episcopal tracts • Apotheosis • Archbishop of Canterbury • areopagitica • arminianism • Ben Jonson • Biography • Calvinism • Career • Censorship • Childhood • classics • Clergy • commonplace book • Counter-Reformation • Curriculum • De Doctrina Christiana (Milton) • De Oratore • Digression • Disputation • Early Life • early poetry • Early Writings • Eclogue • Edmund Spenser • Education • Eikonoklastes • Eloquence • english poetry • English Reformation • Epic Poetry • Epigram • erudition • Euripides • execution of Charles I • Formation • grammar • Grammar school • Henry More • Heresy • Humanist • Idolatry • Il Penseroso • Imagery • indulgence • intellectual context • John Milton • John Selden • Lactantius • L'Allegro • Lancelot Andrewes • Latin Poetry • Laudianism • life and times • literary context • Literature • Lycidas • Milton’s politics • Moralia • Muse • narrative • national epic • Neoplatonism • Odysseus • of education • Ovid • Pamphlet • Paolo Sarpi • Paradise Regained • Persecution • petrarch • Petrarchan Sonnet • Philology • Philosopher • Philosophy • Poet • Poetry • Polemic • political context • predestination • Presbyterianism • Prose • prose works • Protestantism • Publication • Puritans • Quintilian • REGICIDE • Religion • Renaissance humanism • Republicanism • rhetoric • Richard Crashaw • Roger Ascham • Samson Agonistes • Samuel Hartlib • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • Society of Jesus • Sonnet • Soteriology • Superiority (short story) • The Faerie Queene • Theology • The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates • The Various • Tragedy • treatise • Virgil • Westminster Assembly • William Prynne • William Shakespeare • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20912-X / 069120912X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20912-8 / 9780691209128