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John Milton holds a crucial strategic position on the intellectual and ideological map of literary studies. In this provocative and liberating study, John P. Rumrich contends that contemporary critics have contributed to the invention of a monolithic or institutional Milton: censorious preacher, aggressive misogynist, and champion of the emerging bourgeoisie. Rumrich exposes the historical inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain this orthodoxy, and argues instead for a more complex Milton who was able to accommodate uncertainty and doubt.
It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton--who opposed infant baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of polygamy--should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical opinions. This collection of essays investigates aspects of his works inconsistent with conventional beliefs, showing how Milton, as poet, thinker and public servant, eschewed dogma and regarded indeterminacy and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.
A time of political and social unrest in England, this period
produced some of the greatest poetry in English. This volume
includes the major poets John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert,
John Milton, and Andrew Marvell the major women writers of the era
Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish,
and Katherine Philips and nineteen other poets essential to an
understanding of English literature in the seventeenth century. The
poems are accompanied by headnotes and explanatory annotations.
"Criticism" is divided into two sections. The first, "Seventeenth-
and Eighteenth-Century Criticism," includes commentary by
contemporary poets and biographers, among them Ben Jonson, John
Dryden, and Samuel Johnson. The second, "Recent Criticism," brings
together twenty critical examinations of the period and its poets,
including essays by T. S. Eliot, Janel Mueller, Aldous Huxley, W.
H. Auden, Joseph Summers, Laurence Babb, Gerald Hammond, Eavan
Boland, Leah Marcus, and William Kerrigan. A Selected Biography is
also included."
It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton - who opposed infant
baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of
polygamy - should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern
scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical
opinions. This volume investigates aspects of Milton's works
inconsistent with conventional beliefs, whether in terms of
seventeenth-century theology or the common assumptions of Milton
scholars. Contributors situate Milton and his writings within his
specific historical circumstances, paying special attention to
Milton's pragmatic position within seventeenth-century religious
controversy. The volume's four sections deal with heretical
theology, heresy's consequences, heresy and community, and readers
of heresy; their common premise is that Milton, as poet, thinker
and public servant, eschewed set beliefs and regarded indeterminacy
and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.
John Milton - heretic, defender of the Cromwellian regicides, epic
poet - holds a crucial strategic position on the intellectual and
ideological map of literary studies. In this provocative and
liberating study, John P. Rumrich contends that contemporary
critics, despite differences in methodology, have contributed to
the invention of a monolithic or institutional Milton, as
censorious preacher, aggressive misogynist, and champion of the
emerging bourgeoisie. Rumrich reveals the pressures that have
shaped this current critical orthodoxy, and exposes the historical
inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain it. Through
analysis of Milton's poetry and prose, and consideration of the
historical forces that informed Milton's writing, Rumrich argues
instead for a more complex Milton who was able to accommodate
uncertainty and doubt.
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