John Milton: The Inner Life""John Milton: The Inner Life" is the product of a mature scholar's lifelong reflection on Milton. The subject matter is thus significant and intelligent. The style is lively, straightforward, and lucid. Thorpe brings to the study of Milton a breadth of general literary knowledge which is never paraded but which is pervasive in ways which enrich his understanding and ours. There are many good things to savor throughout, and the fifth chapter in particular is the best I remember on Milton's treatment of the natural world. This is an idealistic book, in the best sense, emphasizing basic human values, rather than the minutiae of technical scholarship, but it will attract wide scholarly attention, and I should think also from the general public of intelligent readers."--Roland Mushat Frye, University of Pennsylvania "A truly elegant and engaging book. Thorpe is a marvelous stylist, his prose crisp and lucid. And the individual chapters mesh wonderfully: they provide a series of perspectives on Milton, an emerging profile of the poet, especially of his inner life. That profile is strongly and finely etched and while it fixes on Milton's inner life, it also takes stock of Milton's sense of others and of the world around him. Throughout, the book is marked by an impressive mastery of Milton's poetry and prose by an agile movement between the efforts of his right, and left, hand, by a sensitive understanding and grasp of a poet who thought that the poet himself would be a true poem. I can think of no book I've read in recent years that is a better introduction to the poet through his writings, of none that makes Milton so attractively accessible to a general reading public."--Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr., University of Maryland "This is a thoughtful and well-proportioned book, lucidly and gracefully written. It should be welcomed by teachers and students of Milton's poetry and also by non-specialists. It combines fresh insights with sound judgments, and explores with tact and sensitivity the complex problem of the relations between Milton's life and personality and the major themes of his poetry and prose."--John M. Steadman, University of California, Riverside |
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In this chapter , I would like to discuss four topics which relate to his efforts and to
his deep attitude toward this problem . First , what Milton did to try ... That tactic is
hard work - hard work beyond the normal level of effort . We remember Milton ' s ...
In this chapter , I would like to discuss four topics which relate to his efforts and to
his deep attitude toward this problem . First , what Milton did to try ... That tactic is
hard work - hard work beyond the normal level of effort . We remember Milton ' s ...
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But the weight of the combat actually hangs on words , on Satan ' s effort to
persuade by eloquence . The heart of the action is a series of speeches ; each
series consists of an appeal by Satan and a prompt repudiation by Christ .
But the weight of the combat actually hangs on words , on Satan ' s effort to
persuade by eloquence . The heart of the action is a series of speeches ; each
series consists of an appeal by Satan and a prompt repudiation by Christ .
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The third crisis , political , was the Restoration of Charles II , the return to
monarchy - and the repudiation of the principles to which Milton had devoted
himself for more than a decade . Milton spent his full energy in a stubborn ' effort
to prevent ...
The third crisis , political , was the Restoration of Charles II , the return to
monarchy - and the repudiation of the principles to which Milton had devoted
himself for more than a decade . Milton spent his full energy in a stubborn ' effort
to prevent ...
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Informing Values Chapter II The Sense of the Self Inner Drives | 25 |
SelfEsteem | 51 |
The Sense of Others | 77 |
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| Título | John Milton: The Inner Life |
| Autor | James Thorpe |
| Colaborador | John Milton |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Huntington Library, 1983 |
| ISBN | 0873280792, 9780873280792 |
| Largo | 191 páginas |
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