Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 485 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780691209128
Content:
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 -- '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' -- '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 -- Wotton, Hales, and Eton College -- 12. Love and Death in 'Lycidas' -- Two Sorts of Shepherd -- 'Bacchic Howlings'.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691154695
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McDowell, Nicholas, 1973 - Poet of revolution Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780691154695
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691154694
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Milton, John 1608-1674
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Electronic books
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Biografie
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691209128
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691209128
