Poet of revolution : the making of John Milton /
"This is a new account of the intellectual, literary and political development of one the central poets in the English canon. Author Nicholas McDowell follows John Milton more or less from his birth in 1608 and his education to his emergence as a polemical prose writer in the 1640s, concluding...
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| 520 | |a "This is a new account of the intellectual, literary and political development of one the central poets in the English canon. Author Nicholas McDowell follows John Milton more or less from his birth in 1608 and his education to his emergence as a polemical prose writer in the 1640s, concluding at the moment when Milton turned his pen to defending the execution of Charles I in 1649 in the closing years of the English Civil War, though several years before the onset of the poet's blindness and the composition of Paradise Lost. As the author makes explicit, this is not a book about the writing of Milton's great biblical epic; rather, it is a book about the formation of the mind that eventually would create this epic, though only after that same mind, of course, justified the killing of a king. Central to the book is Milton's evolving understanding of the ways in which 'tyranny'-defined initially in ecclesiastical and clerical terms but which grows to encompass political organization-retards the intellectual and cultural progress of a nation. McDowell demonstrates how this understanding was shaped not only by Milton's historical experience of the political turbulence of mid seventeenth-century Britain, but also by the interaction between that experience and his intellectual life. This, the author says, was Milton's period of intensive and almost entirely orthodox reading in history and religion, and it was then that he came to see any clerical encroachment upon civil authority as tyranny. His intellectual pursuits, in tandem with wider events, led him to turn to explicitly political prose writing in the defence of regicide at the beginning of 1649. This biography of the first half of the poet's life shows us how John Milton the young poet, scholar, humanist, and universalist became John Milton the puritan, republican and polemicist"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two University Scenes -- PART I: LONDON AND ST PAUL'S SCHOOL, 1608-25 -- 1. Londiniensis -- 'Chief of Cities' -- The ABC of Salvation -- 'Excellent Father' -- Humanism and Puritanism -- 2. Pure Chaste Eloquence -- The Grammar of Things -- Blotterature -- That Sublime Art -- 3. The Pursuit of Universal Learning -- Eloquence and Erudition -- Accelerated Humanism -- PART II: CAMBRIDGE AND CHRIST'S COLLEGE, 1625-9 -- 4. Philology and Philosophy | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 'Whip't Him' -- 'Vehement Study and Emulation' -- 'Blind Illiteracy' -- 'New Rotten Sophistrie' -- 5. Beginning as a Poet -- Fatal Vespers -- 'That Little Swimming Isle' -- The Nature of a Composition -- Satire and Libel -- 6. Heroes and Daemons -- Miscellany Poet -- A Monument More Permanent -- Living with the Daemons -- Domina -- 7. The Poetics of Play and Devotion -- 'His Hand Unstained' -- Melancholicus -- 'A Synchronism of Prophecies' -- 'The Lars, and Lemures Moan' -- PART III: CAMBRIDGE AND HAMMERSMITH, 1629-35 -- 8. Laudian Poet? -- 'Tenet of the Apocalyptical Beast' | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 'Arminianized under his Tuition' -- Mystics in Hammersmith -- 'Above the Years He Had When He Wrote It' -- Water and Wine, Tears and Blood -- 9. In Search of Patronage -- 'Pluto's Helmet' -- Genius of the Wood -- 'Notorious Whores' -- Some Other Circe -- 10. Many Are the Shapes of Things Daemonic -- Pagan Virtue -- 'How Charming Is Divine Philosophy!' -- Apollo's Lute -- The Beauty and The Bacchae -- PART IV: HORTON AND ITALY, 1635-9 -- 11. The Circle of Studies -- Identity and Belief in 1636 -- 'Subdivisions of Vice and Virtue' -- 'Censored by the Inquisitor' -- A True Poem | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Wotton, Hales, and Eton College -- 12. Love and Death in 'Lycidas' -- Two Sorts of Shepherd -- 'Bacchic Howlings' -- Digression and Desire -- 13. Writing and Society in 'Lycidas' -- 'Run Amarillis Run' -- Index Expurgatorius -- Genius of the Shore -- 14. Come un Virtuoso -- In Circe's Court -- 'Flattery and Fustian' -- Non Angli, Sed Angeli -- Be Our Daemon -- PART V: LONDON AND ALDERSGATE STREET, 1639-42 -- 15. Becoming a Polemicist -- The Method of History -- 'Brittish of the North Parts' -- 'Tearing of Hoods and Cowles' -- Ancients and Moderns -- 16. The Poetics of Polemic | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 'Struggle of Contrarieties' -- A Calvinist Suit of Armour -- 'Inquisitorious and Tyrannical Duncery' -- Ignorance of the Beautiful -- Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic -- Notes -- Index | |
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