John Milton

Name: John Milton
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ISBN: 9780415202442

ISBN-10: 0415202442

ISBN-13: 9780415202442

Edition: 2001

Authors: Richard Bradford

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This volume is part of a series of comprehensive, user-friendly introductions which offer basic information on an author's life, contexts and works.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.35" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Series editors' preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations and referencing


Introduction



Life and Contexts


Bread Street 1608-1625


Religious and political contexts


Cambridge


Literary context


Reflection


Europe


Civil War and early political writing


Marriage, separation and the divorce tracts


The execution of the King, and Milton in the political centreground


The Restoration and Paradise Lost



Work


Early poems


The Psalms


On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough


At a Vacation Exercise in The College, part Latin, part English


Sonnet I


Song. On May Morning


On the Morning of Christ's Nativity


The Passion


On Shakespeare


On the University Carrier


An Epigraph on the Marchioness of Winchester


L'Allegro and II Penseroso


Sonnet VII


Arcades


At A Solemn Music; On Time; Upon the Circumcision


Comus


Lycidas


Political poems


Sonnet VIII


Sonnet X: To The Lady Margaret Ley


Sonnet IX


Sonnet XIII: To Mr. H. Lawes, on His Airs


Sonnet XII: On the Detraction which followed upon my writing of Certain Treatises


On the New Forcers of Conscience in the Long Parliament


Sonnet XIV


Sonnet XI


Psalms LXXX-LXXXVIII


On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester


To The Lord General Cromwell


To Sir Henry Vane the Younger


Sonnet XVI and To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness


Sonnet XVII


Sonnet XV: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont


Sonnet XVIII


Sonnet XIX


Tragic and epic poetry


Samson Agonistes


Paradise Lost


Paradise Regained



Criticism


The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries


The Romantics


Victorian criticism


Modern criticism


Lewis, Empson and the pre-theory critics


Feminist criticism


History and politics


Psychoanalysis


Poststructuralism and deconstruction


Conclusions


Chrenology


Bibliography


Index