A study of the theology of John Milton (1608-74) which explores his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) against the background of post-Reformation controversies regarding predestination, creation, free will, sin, and grace.
Elizabeth Sauer brings a new perspective to Milton scholarship through her examination of the relative status and authority of the multiple narrative voices in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. She argues that Milton's epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices, episo…
Elizabeth Sauer brings a new perspective to Milton scholarship through her examination of the relative status and authority of the multiple narrative voices in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. She argues that Milton's epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices, episo…
The Use and Abuse of Art
by Project Muse, Barzun, Jacques Martin
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
Jonathan Shears offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. He devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton with a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical contexts and d…