San Antonio College Library

"Concise enough to be assimilated in a single session, this short volume maps the wonders of Milton's poetic landscape. The book offers an exploration of some of the main narrative and poetic elements of the epic poem - qualities which have compelled and fascinated readers for more than three centuries."--Jacket flap.

William Blake thought that John Milton had been betrayed by both his commentators and his illustrators, and he set out to recover Milton's vision, particularly in Paradise Lost, from the misguided academic and Augustan misinterpretation to which it had been subjected. The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton is the first detailed. analysis of all of Blake's illustrations for Milton's poetry. Blake explicitly believed he was correcting...

Introduction to Paradise Lost ---- 1. Myth and ritual --- 2. Epic --- 3. Writing, publication and editing of PL --- 4. Ideology --- 5. Ethics --- 6. Theology --- 7. Structures in PL --- 8. Allusion --- 9. Language --- 10. Syntax --- 11. Rhetoric --- 12. Minor components of epic --- 13. Simile --- 14. Rhythm --- 15. Style. In this, the first introductory volume of the Cambridge Milton for Schools and Colleges, Professor Broadbent, the general editor...

In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps, one proclaiming that Milton was of the devil's party, the other proclaiming that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore...