ISBN: 9780191558535

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiogra… More...

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex story emerges, of Milton's culturally rich but ideologically conformist early decades, and of his radicalisation during the later years of Laudianism. We track the internal dynamics of English puritanism in the 1640s and the impact that has on his own convictions. In the 1650s Milton's thought and beliefs were reconciled to the role as public servant. In the 1660s a renewed confidence carried him towards the completion of his greatest project, Paradise Lost, and his final years were ones of creative fulfilment and renewed political engagement. Amid the discontinuities occasioned by shifting political circumstance, by the exigencies of polemical context, and the diversity of genres in which he wrote, Milton emerged as a major political thinker and significant systematic theologian, as well as the most eloquent prose writer and most accomplished poet of the age. A more human Milton appears in these pages, flawed, self-contractory, self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning, as well as the literary genius who achieved so much. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, OUP Oxford Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780191558535

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiogra… More...

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography.Milton's thought has often been too simply described.The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent.A more complex story emerges, of Milton's culturally rich but ideologically conformist early decades, andof his radicalisation during the later years of Laudianism.We track the internal dynamics of English puritanism in the 1640s and the impact that has on his own convictions.In the 1650s Milton's thought and beliefs were reconciled to the role as public servant.In the 1660s a renewed confidencecarried him towards the completion of his greatest project, Paradise Lost, and his final years were ones of creative fulfilment and renewed political engagement.Amid the discontinuities occasioned by shifting political circumstance, by the exigencies of polemical context, and the diversity of genres in which he wrote, Milton emerged as a major political thinker and significant systematic theologian, as well as the most eloquent prose writer and most accomplished poet of the age.Amore human Milton appears in these pages, flawed, self-contractory, self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning, as well as the literary genius who achieved so much.; PDF; Biography > Biography: general > Biography: literary, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191558535

The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England.Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruth… More...

The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England.Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers of the time and author of the most influential narrative poem in English.; PDF; Biography > Biography: general > Biography: literary, OUP Oxford<

2008, ISBN: 9780191558535

Life, Work, and Thought, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2008

2008, ISBN: 9780191558535

Life, Work, and Thought, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: OUP Oxford]