John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

ISBN-13: 9780199591039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 512 str.

Gordon Campbell

Opis

Written by two of the world's leading Milton scholars, widely praised as "illuminating" (Times Literary Supplement), "seamlessly written (Publishers Weekly), and "a book of permanent value" (Literary Review), and winner of the Milton Society's James Holly Hanford Award, this magnificent biography sheds fresh new light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton. A more human Milton appears in these pages, a Milton who is flawed, self-contradictory, self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning. He is also among the most accomplished writers of the period, the most eloquent polemicist of the mid-century, and the author of the finest and most influential narrative poem in English, Paradise Lost, which the book examines in detail. What Milton achieved in the face of crippling adversity, blindness, bereavement, and political eclipse, remains wondrous. Here is a fascinating biography of this towering literary figure--the first new serious study in forty years--one that profoundly challenges the received wisdom about one of England's leading poets and thinkers.

Recenzje

This will be the definitive biography for some time...you won't get much better than this. The Guardian

Spis treści

From the contents:
Introduction; Part I 1608 - 1632; 1: Childhood; 2: St Paul's School; 3: Cambridge: the undergraduate years; 4: Cambridge: the postgraduate years; Part II 1632-1639; 5: Hammersmith; 6: Horton; 7: Italy; Part III 1639 - 49; 8: The Crisis of Government; 9: The First Civil War; 10: The Road to Regicide; Part IV 1649-1660; 11: The Purged Parliament; 12: The Protectorate; 13: From the Death of Oliver Cromwell to the Restoration; Part V 1660-67; 14: Milton in 1660; 15: Surviving the Restoration; 16: Plague, Fire and Paradise Lost; 17: The Sunlit Uplands; Part VI 1667 and after; 18: Posthumous Life and Nachlass; Bibliography

O autorze

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is a former chairman of the English Association and of the Society for Renaissance Studies He has published widely on Milton and on art and architecture, mostly for OUP. Thomas N. Corns is Professor of English at Bangor University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published six books on Milton and other books on seventeenth-century literature.