Milton and the English Revolution / by Christopher Hill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 1979, c1977.Description: xvi, 541 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0140050663
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821/.4
LOC classification:
  • PR 3592 .P64 H5 1979
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I: Shipwreck everywhere : 2 Pre-revolutionary England -- 3 Milton's apprenticeship -- 4 Comus and Lycidas -- 5 Revolution approaches -- Part II: Teeming freedom : 6 The radical underground -- 7 Ecrasez l'infamê -- 8 Milton and the Radicals -- 9 Marriage, divorce and polygamy -- 10 1644 -- Part III: Milton and the Commonwealth : 11 Defending the republic, I -- 12 Eikonoklastes and idolatry -- 13 Defending the republic, II -- Part IV: Defeat and after : 14 Losing hope -- 15 Back to Egypt -- 16 Last years -- 17 Milton's reputation -- Part V: Milton's Christian doctrine : 18 Theology and logic -- 19 Milton and the Bible -- 20 The dialectic of discipline and liberty -- 21 Radical Arminianism -- 22 The millennium and the chosen one -- 23 Sons and the father -- 24 Approaches to Antinomianism -- 25 Mortalism -- 26 Materialism and creation -- 27 Society and heresy: between two cultures -- Part VI: The great poems : 28 The fall of man -- 29 Paradise Lost -- 30 Paradise Regained -- 31 Samson Agonistes: hope regained -- Part VII: Towards a conclusion : 32 Milton's Milton versus Milton -- 33 The relevance of Milton -- 34 Keeping the truth -- Appendices : 1 The date of Samson Agonistes -- 2 John and Edward Phillips -- 3 Nathan Paget and his library.
Summary: "In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular imagination: instead of a gloomy, sexless 'Puritan', we have a dashingly original thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine. For Hill, Milton is an author who found his real stimulus less in the literature of classical and times and more in the political and religious radicalism of his own day. Hill demonstrates, with originality, learning and insight, how Milton's political and religious predicament is reflected in his classic poetry, particularly 'Paradise Lost' and 'Samson Agonistes'." -- From the publisher.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection PR 3592 .P64 H5 1979 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML21090037

Includes index of writings by John Milton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-517) and index.

Part I: Shipwreck everywhere : 2 Pre-revolutionary England -- 3 Milton's apprenticeship -- 4 Comus and Lycidas -- 5 Revolution approaches -- Part II: Teeming freedom : 6 The radical underground -- 7 Ecrasez l'infamê -- 8 Milton and the Radicals -- 9 Marriage, divorce and polygamy -- 10 1644 -- Part III: Milton and the Commonwealth : 11 Defending the republic, I -- 12 Eikonoklastes and idolatry -- 13 Defending the republic, II -- Part IV: Defeat and after : 14 Losing hope -- 15 Back to Egypt -- 16 Last years -- 17 Milton's reputation -- Part V: Milton's Christian doctrine : 18 Theology and logic -- 19 Milton and the Bible -- 20 The dialectic of discipline and liberty -- 21 Radical Arminianism -- 22 The millennium and the chosen one -- 23 Sons and the father -- 24 Approaches to Antinomianism -- 25 Mortalism -- 26 Materialism and creation -- 27 Society and heresy: between two cultures -- Part VI: The great poems : 28 The fall of man -- 29 Paradise Lost -- 30 Paradise Regained -- 31 Samson Agonistes: hope regained -- Part VII: Towards a conclusion : 32 Milton's Milton versus Milton -- 33 The relevance of Milton -- 34 Keeping the truth -- Appendices : 1 The date of Samson Agonistes -- 2 John and Edward Phillips -- 3 Nathan Paget and his library.

"In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular imagination: instead of a gloomy, sexless 'Puritan', we have a dashingly original thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine. For Hill, Milton is an author who found his real stimulus less in the literature of classical and times and more in the political and religious radicalism of his own day. Hill demonstrates, with originality, learning and insight, how Milton's political and religious predicament is reflected in his classic poetry, particularly 'Paradise Lost' and 'Samson Agonistes'." -- From the publisher.

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha