The Moral Cosmos of Paradise Lost
Author | : Lawrence Babb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lawrence Babb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : WILLIAM FAIRFIELD. WARREN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033616581 |
Author | : M. Sarkar |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2012-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137007001 |
This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the characters of the angels and Adam and Eve. After examining the contextual references to cabalism, hermeticism, and science in the invocations and in the presentation of chaos and Night, the book focuses on the central stage of the epic action, Milton's unique cosmos, at once finite and infinite, with its re-orientation of compass points. While Milton relies on the new astronomy, optics and mechanics in configuring his cosmos, he draws upon alchemy to suggest that the imagined prelapsarian cosmos is the crucible within which vital re-orientations of authority could have taken place.
Author | : Dennis Danielson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316194531 |
This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are 'world[s] / Of destined habitation'. Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.
Author | : John E. Seaman |
Publisher | : Hague : Mouton |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2003-02-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 014192019X |
In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intensedebate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. Sarkar |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781349435197 |
This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the characters of the angels and Adam and Eve. After examining the contextual references to cabalism, hermeticism, and science in the invocations and in the presentation of chaos and Night, the book focuses on the central stage of the epic action, Milton's unique cosmos, at once finite and infinite, with its re-orientation of compass points. While Milton relies on the new astronomy, optics and mechanics in configuring his cosmos, he draws upon alchemy to suggest that the imagined prelapsarian cosmos is the crucible within which vital re-orientations of authority could have taken place.