Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of more than thirtyleading scholars. Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains oneof the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studiesin the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team ofthirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in recent times, aconsequence in great part of the increasingly fluid relations between literary and historical study. The Handbook both embodies the interest in Milton's political and religious contexts in the last generation and seeks to inaugurate a new phase in Milton studies through closer integration of the poetry andprose. There are eight essays on various aspects of Paradise Lost, ranging from its classical background and poetic form to its heretical theology and representation of God. There are sections devoted both to the shorter poems, including 'Lycidas' and Comus, and the final poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. There are also three sections on Milton's prose: the early controversial works on church government, divorce, and toleration, includingAreopagitica; the regicide and republican prose of 1649-1660, the period during which he served as the chief propagandist for the English Commonwealth and Cromwell's Protectorate, and the various writings on education, history, and theology. The opening essays explore what we know about Milton's biography and what it might tell us; the finalessays offer interpretations of aspects of Milton's massive influence on later writers, including the Romantic poets. An impressive achievement [which] offers the reader an excellent sense of the strongest critical work being done inMilton studies... This excellent Oxford handbook [has] established a new and higher standard for such volumes. Destined to become required reading for serious Milton students and academics alike... a work which will assuredly set a new, exacting standard for Milton studies for years to come A body of scholarship that brings textual criticism and the history of the book to Milton studiesin vital and interesting ways... a significant and extremely useful handbook INDICE: Notes on Contributors Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations Miltons' Life: Some Significant Dates Part I: Lives 'Ere Half My Days': Milton's Life, 1608-1640 John Milton: The Later Life, 1641-1675 Part II: Shorter Poems 'The Adorning of My Native Tongue': Milton's Latin Poetry and Linguistic Metamorphosis Milton's Early English Poems: The Nativity Ode, 'L'Allegro', 'Il Penseroso' 'A thousand fantasies': The Lady and the Maske 'Lycidas' and the Influence of Anxiety The Troubled, Quiet Endings of Milton's English Sonnets Part III: Civil War Prose, 1641-45 The Anti-Episcopal Tracts: Republicanism Puritanism and the Truth in Poetry 'A Law in this matter to himself': ContextualisingMilton's Divorce Tracts Whose Liberty? The Rhetoric of Milton's Divorce Tracts Milton Areopagitica, and the Parliamentary Cause Areopagitica and Liberty Part IV: Regicide, Republican, and Restoration Prose 'The Strangest Piece of Reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Milton's Regicide Tracts and the Uses of Shakespeare John Milton, European: the Rhetoric of Milton's DefencesDefensio Prima and the Latin Poets 'Nothing nobler then a free Commonwealth':Milton's Later Vernacular Republican Tracts Disestablishment, Toleration, theNew Testament Nation: Milton's Late Religious Tracts Milton and National Identity Part V: Writings on Education, History, Theology The Genres of Milton's Commonplace Book Milton, the Hartlib Circle, and the Education of the Aristocracy Conquest and Slavery in Milton's History of Britain De Doctrina Christiana:An England That Might Have Been Part VI: Paradise Lost Writing Epic: ParadiseLost 'A mind of most exceptional energy': Verse Rhythm in Paradise Lost Editing Milton: the Case against Modernization The 'World' of Paradise Lost Paradise Lost and Heresy God Eve, Paradise Lost, and Female Interpretation The Politics of Paradise Lost Part VII: 1671 Poems: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes 'Englands Case': Context of the 1671 Poems Paradise Regained and the Memoryof Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes and 'Single Rebellion' Samson Agonistes: the Force of Justice and the Violence of Idolatry Samson Agonistes and Milton's Sensible Ethics Part VII: Aspects of Influence Milton Epic and Bucolic: Empireand Readings of Paradise Lost, 1667-1837 Miltonic Romanticism
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