Milton and the sense of tradition / Christopher Grose
1988, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388825
ISBN: 0300041713
Physical description; 240 pp. Contents; Prologue: Paradise regained ... to which is added Samson agonistes -- Prose and the "literary" Milton: the Second defence -- Vestiges of autobiography: the familiar letters and The reason of church government -- The true poem in Potentia: "L'allegro" and "Il penseroso" -- Monody historified: the Apology against a pamphlet -- Trying all things in the Areopagitica -- Paradise regained and Milton's "other" Satan -- "With curious eye": setting and structure in Paradise regained -- Samson's jurisdiction: the pattern of a Christian hero -- The sense of heaven's desertion -- Samson agonistes as lament -- Unapocryphal visitors -- Tasting the great event. Subjects; Milton, John 1608-1674 Criticism and interpretation. Paradise regained. Samson Agonistes. Samson (Biblical judge) In literature. Christian poetry. Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
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