Milton and the Idea of the Fall

ISBN-13: 9780521847636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 254 str.

William Poole

Opis

John Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man in Paradise Lost (1667). William Poole presents a comprehensive analysis of the origin, evolution, and contemporary debate on the Fall, and the way seventeenth-century authors, particularly Milton, represented it. Poole first examines the range and depth of early modern thought on the subject, then explains and evaluates the basis of the idea and the intellectual and theological controversies it inspired from early Christian times to Milton's own century.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Milton and the Idea of the Fall is one of those specialist books that open out to change not only the way we think about Milton, but also the way we conceive of the period.' Modern Language Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Fallen Culture: 1. The fall; 2. Augustinianism; 3. The quarrel over original sin 1649–60; 4. The heterodox fall; 5. The fall in practice; Part II. Milton: 6. Towards Paradise Lost; 7. Paradise Lost I: the causality of primal wickedness; 8. Paradise Lost II: God, Eden, and man; 9. Paradise Lost III: creation and education; 10. Paradise Lost IV: fall and expulsion; Conclusion.