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John Milton: A Cause Without a Rebel
John Milton has been frequently associated with rebellion, both by modern scholars and by his contemporaries. Objectively speaking, he may very well be a rebel; however, looking to his own works complicates the issue. In fact, Milton makes very clear in his writing, especially in The Tenure of …
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… Christian Humanism on the political thought of John Milton and Thomas More, and argues that Milton’s politics was utopian like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and training in virtue. However, virtue was …
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An Analysis of the Angels in the Poetry of John Milton
… and effective elements in the poetry of John Milton is his conception of angelic nature. This conception is frequently original, devised to suit the purpose or end of the poem. In the greatest of his works, the angels emerge as factors so dominant to the action, mood, and end of the poem …
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Calvinistic Election and Arminian Reparation: A Striking Contrast in the Works of Roger Williams and John Milton
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
… human agency </p><p>and activity. Beginning with John Calvin and continuing through the work of John </p><p>Donne, John Milton, and Baruch Spinoza, Affect Before Spinoza posits affectus as a basis </p><p>of faith in an emergent Reformed tradition as well as a term that informs disparate …
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Early modern masters of suspicion
… Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John Milton, casting them as Masters of Suspicion. The category of ‘Master of Suspicion’ was introduced by Ricœur (1970) to describe how Marx, Nietzsche and Freud approached their respective economic, epistemological and medical contexts. After a …
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Respublica: A Collection of Original Poems
… retelling of the fall of man in the tradition of John Milton. Through this lens, and with an understanding of the consequences of sin on our lives, the great men and women of history, the rise and fall of empires, and the emergence of our contemporary moment are brought to the forefront in my own …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
John Milton's Paradise Lost engages the argument advanced by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus in his De Rerum Natura, a poetic apology for Epicureanism. Milton's Protestant views set him at odds with Lucretius's central claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… and affect transhistorically through Theocritus, John Milton, and Percy Shelley. The final portion will be an original creative collection of elegies combined with epitaphs as ending couplets about fictional characters who have died. For example, there are elegies about Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel …
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George Herbert's restlessness: Spiritual fulfillment or spiritual estrangement?
… George Herbert, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton. Herbert's perspective alone differs from the others; George Herbert's perspective is framed in "The Pulley." His view that restlessness is a divine treasure is unique to him and is manifested in various avenues. First, restlessness as a …
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Ordering desires : rhetoric and virtue in Milton's Paradise Lost.
Critics have long recognized that the writings of John Milton unite elements of biblical narrative with imaginative construction. However, despite Milton's explicit appreciation for Spenser, less critical attention has been given to the way Milton's epic inculcates particular virtues. Milton …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
… Barnabe Googe, George Whetstone, Philip Sidney, John Donne, Lady Mary Wroth, and John Milton. I show that poets writing in the long English Reformation developed poetic strategies for amorous, political, and religious self-fashioning that embraced both Catholic and Protestant pieties. Building …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… (by Spenser, Shakespeare, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton) shed light on the avidity of interest and diversity of approach early modern writers brought to questions of evil. Bringing philological evidence from the literary archive to bear on existing historical-theoretical theses regarding the …
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The Countenance Divine & 'nothing more important than trifles': critical reflections on The Countenance Divine
In 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes his epic Paradise Lost amid a/ever of prophetic speculation: is this the year God will finally deliver a terrible judgement on London? in 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Bloke has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… on sexual deviance. Focusing on works by John Bale, John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and …
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'First the Original': the Place of Adam in Seventeenth Century Theories of the Polity
… works by individual authors; Roger Williams, John Eliot, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton and John Locke. In these works varied approaches are observed as the authors interrogate, expand or contract the story and traditions of Adam in their interpretations of its significance to their times and …
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The Reader of Milton's "Higher Argument" in Paradise Lost
Milton has a literary place within the Christian understanding of grace, entangles his reader into Paradise Lost, and embeds a "higher Argument" of an economics of salvation of grace within the text which thus forms a transcendent reader who responds by a choice for the kingdom of heaven or the …
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The Theme of Free Will in Milton's Major Poems
… of the most vital elements in the poetry of John Milton is the concept of the freedom of the will, a concept that is one of the more obvious themes in his four most important poems. In Paradise Lost, free will functions as a destructive impulse motivating the tragedy. In Paradise Regained, it …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… biblical epics— Abraham Cowley's Davideis, John Milton's Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical epics, I focus on their use of epideictic …
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