Using Hannah Arendt's account of the Greek polis to explain
Milton's fascination with the idea of public speech, this study
reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly,
republican oratory and poetics. The book shows how Milton uses
rhetorical theory - its ideas, techniques and image patterns - to
dramatise the struggle between 'good' and 'bad' oratory, and to
fashion his own model of divinely inspired public utterance.
Connecting his polemical and imaginative writing in new ways, the
book discusses the subliminal rhetoric at work in Milton's
political prose and the systematic scrutiny of the power of oratory
in his major poetry. By setting Milton in the context of other
Civil War polemicists, of classical political theory and its early
modern reinterpretations, and of Renaissance writing on rhetoric
and poetic language, the book sheds new light on his work across
several genres, culminating in an extended Arendtian reading of his
'Greek' drama Samson Agonistes.
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