Eden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton - Hardcover

Eden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Sehr gut. 332 p.: Ill. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist minimal berieben. Sonst aber ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is minimally rubbed. But otherwise a very good and clean copy. - Milton, said Dryden, was the author of the most noble poem of his age and nation." Indeed, since the publication of Paradise Lost in 1667, Milton has been recognized as one of the greatest poets in the English language, and as a progenitor of English literature as influential as Chaucer and Shakespeare. Here in Eden Renewed, the renowned poet and biographer of Edward Lear and Alfred Tennyson, Oxford University professor Peter Levi, presents readers with an extraordinary portrait of John Milton (1608-1674). In this compelling and detailed work. Levi traces Milton's life from the young man who wrote the lyrical poem Lyeidas, to his political writings and pamphlets, to the vision of the blind old man. composing Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. In doing so, Levi gives us a full picture of the great poet that shows his roots in Shakespearean England and his growth through the Revolution. Civil War. and the Restoration. Eden Renewed includes valuable new translations of Milton s Latin verse, as well as all new interpretations of his most important prose works. It is a remarkable biography by one of the most recognized critics of English literature today. John Milton (9 December 1608 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets. He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. Milton achieved fame and recognition during his lifetime, his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. His desire for freedom extended beyond his philosophy and was reflected in his style, which included his introduction of new words (coined from Latin and Ancient Greek) to the English language. He was the first modern writer to employ unrhymed verse outside of the theatre or translations. Milton is described as the "greatest English author" by biographer William Hayley, and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language", though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death often on account of his republicanism. Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which.with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind", though he (a Tory) described Milton's politics as those of an "acrimonious and surly republican". Milton was revered by poets such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Thomas Hardy. (Wikipedia). Contents: one Boyhood i two Cambridge three Milton s Maturity four Comus five Lycidas six Italy ioo seven Civil War eight Prose nine Regicide ten The King Restored: Paradise Lost eleven The Great Poem twelve The Great Poet THIRTEEN THEOLOGY Appendix One: Translations of the Latin and Italian Poems of Milton by William Cowper Appendix Two: Flagellum Parliamentarium. ISBN 9780312151164 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 Hardback edition with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1219144

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