Poet of Revolution

Name: Poet of Revolution | The Making of John Milton
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The Making of John Milton

Nicholas McDowell(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 27. Oktober 2020

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Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction: Two University Scenes
Part I: London and St Paul's School, 1608-25
1. Londiniensis
'Chief of Cities'
The ABC of Salvation
'Excellent Father'
Humanism and Puritanism
2. Pure Chaste Eloquence
The Grammar of Things
Blotterature
That Sublime Art
3. The Pursuit of Universal Learning
Eloquence and Erudition
Accelerated Humanism
Part II: Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625-9
4. Philology and Philosophy
'Whip't Him'
'Vehement Study and Emulation'
'Blind Illiteracy'
'New Rotten Sophistrie'
5. Beginning as a Poet
Fatal Vespers
'That Little Swimming Isle'
The Nature of a Composition
Satire and Libel
6. Heroes and Daemons
Miscellany Poet
A Monument More Permanent
Living with the Daemons
Domina
7. The Poetics of Play and Devotion
'His Hand Unstained'
Melancholicus
'A Synchronism of Prophecies'
'The Lars, and Lemures Moan'
Part III: Cambridge and Hammersmith, 1629-35
8. Laudian Poet
'Tenet of the Apocalyptical Beast
'Arminianized under his Tuition'
Mystics in Hammersmith
'Above the Years He Had When He Wrote It'
Water and Wine, Tears and Blood
9. In Pursuit of Patronage
'Pluto's Helmet'
Genius of the Wood
'Notorious Whores'
Some Other Circe
10. Many Are the Shapes of Things Daemonic
Pagan Virtue
'How Charming is Divine Philosophy!'
Apollo's Lute
The Beauty and The Bacchae
Part IV: Horton and Italy, 1635-9
11. The Circle of Studies
Identity and Belief in 1636
'Subdivisions of Vice and Virtue'
'Censored by the Inquisitor'
A True Poem
Wotton, Hales, and Eton College
12. Love and Death in 'Lycidas
Two Sorts of Shepherd
'Bacchic Howlings'
Digression and Desire
13. Writing and Society in 'Lycidas
'Run Amarillis Run'
Index Expurgatorius
Genius of the Shore
14. Come un Virtuoso
In Circe's Court
'Flattery and Fustian'
Non Angli, Sed Angeli
Be Our Daemon
Part V: London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42
15. Becoming a Polemicist
The Method of History
'Brittish of the North Parts'
'Tearing of Hoods and Cowles'
Ancients and Moderns
16. The Poetics of Polemic
'Struggle of Contrarieties'
A Calvinist Suit of Armour
'Inquisitorious and Tyrannical Duncery'
Ignorance of the Beautiful
Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic
Notes
Index

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