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John Milton - Life, Work, and Thought (Paperback)
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John Milton - Life, Work, and Thought (Paperback)
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This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life
records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of
the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography.
Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach
here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism,
republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex story
emerges, of Milton's culturally rich but ideologically conformist
early decades, and of his radicalisation during the later years of
Laudianism. We track the internal dynamics of English puritanism in
the 1640s and the impact that has on his own convictions. In the
1650s Milton's thought and beliefs were reconciled to the role as
public servant. In the 1660s a renewed confidence carried him
towards the completion of his greatest project, Paradise Lost, and
his final years were ones of creative fulfilment and renewed
political engagement. Amid the discontinuities occasioned by
shifting political circumstance, by the exigencies of polemical
context, and the diversity of genres in which he wrote, Milton
emerged as a major political thinker and significant systematic
theologian, as well as the most eloquent prose writer and most
accomplished poet of the age. A more human Milton appears in these
pages, flawed, self-contractory, self-serving, arrogant,
passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning, as well as the
literary genius who achieved so much.
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