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BY
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Author of
'Style,' 'Wordsworth,' &c.
TENTH IMPRESSION
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, BOND STREET, W.
1915
TO
R. A. M. STEVENSON
WHOSE RADIANT AND SOARING INTELLIGENCE
ENLIGHTENED AND GUIDED ME
DURING THE YEARS OF OUR LOST COMPANIONSHIP
THIS UNAVAILING TRIBUTE OF
MEMORY AND LOVE
| INTRODUCTION | |
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| PAGE | |
| "Sciences of conceit"; the difficulties and imperfections of literarycriticism; illustrated in the case of Shakespeare; and of Milton;the character and temper of Milton; intensity, simplicity,egotism; his estimate of himself | 1 |
| CHAPTER I John Milton | |
| His birth, and death; his education; early life inLondon; ships andshipping; adventurers and players; Milton and the Elizabethandrama; the poetic masters of his youth; state of the Church ofEngland; Baxter's testimony; growing unrest; Milton's earlypoems; the intrusion of politics; the farewell to mirth; theRestoration, and Milton's attitude; the lost paradise of theearly poems; Milton's Puritanism; his melancholy; thepolitical and public preoccupations of the later poems; thedrama of Milton's life; his egotism explained; an illustrationfrom Lycidas; the lost cause; the ultimate triumph | 12 |
| CHAPTER II The Prose Works | |
| Poets and politics; practical aim of Milton's prose writings; thereforms advocated by him, with one exception, unachieved;[iv]critical mourners over Milton's political writings; the mournerscomforted; Milton's classification of his prose tracts; theoccasional nature of these tracts; allusions in the early proseworks to the story of Samson, and to the theme of ParadiseLost; Milton's personal and public motives; his persuasive vein;his political idealism; Johnson's account of his political opinions;the citizen of an antique city; Milton's attitude towardsmediæval romance, and towards the mediæval Church; hisworship of liberty; and of greatness; his belief in humancapacity and virtue; Milton and Cromwell; Milton's clearlogic; his tenacity; his scurrility, and its excuse; his fierce andfantastic wit; reappearance of these qualities in Paradise Lost;the style of his prose works analysed and illustrated; his richvocabulary; his use of Saxon; the making of an epic poet | 39 |
| CHAPTER III Paradise Lost: The Scheme | |
| Vastness of the theme; scenical opportunities; the poetry independentof the creed; Milton's choice of subject; King Arthur; ParadiseLost; attractions of the theme: primitive religion, naturalbeauty, dramatic interest; difficulties of the theme, and forbiddentopics; how Milton overcomes these difficulties by his episodes,his similes, and the tradition that h ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |