John Milton: The Inner LifeHuntington Library, 1983 - 191 páginas ""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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... thought , in a condition of life pleasing to God . Milton adopted an ideal of virtue which had been highly valued ... thoughts . And long it was not after [ he continued ] , when I was confirm'd in this opinion , that he who would not be ...
... thought , in a condition of life pleasing to God . Milton adopted an ideal of virtue which had been highly valued ... thoughts . And long it was not after [ he continued ] , when I was confirm'd in this opinion , that he who would not be ...
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... thoughts " turn out to be , not a trip to the secret places of his mind and spirit , but an account of his education and reading . In an important sense , that reading was a key to , or per- haps almost was , his " inmost thoughts ...
... thoughts " turn out to be , not a trip to the secret places of his mind and spirit , but an account of his education and reading . In an important sense , that reading was a key to , or per- haps almost was , his " inmost thoughts ...
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... thought it lawful from my former act , / And the same end ; still watching to oppress / Israel's oppressors " ( 231 ... thoughts . All reason is against acceding to the demand , and he declines the order , with resolution and contempt ...
... thought it lawful from my former act , / And the same end ; still watching to oppress / Israel's oppressors " ( 231 ... thoughts . All reason is against acceding to the demand , and he declines the order , with resolution and contempt ...
Contenido
Informing Values | 3 |
Inner Drives | 25 |
SelfEsteem | 51 |
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