Divided Empire: Milton's Political ImageryPenn State Press, 1995年9月8日 - 208 頁 In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English Republic. Milton's works are crowded with political figures—kings, counselors, senators, soldiers, and envoys—all engaged in a comparable variety of public acts—debate, decree, diplomacy, and warfare—in a manner similar to those who exercised power on the world stage during his time in public office. Traditionally, scholars have cited this imagery for two purposes: first, to support studies of the poet's political allegiances as reflected in his prose and his life; and, second, to demonstrate that his works are sympathetic to certain ideological positions popular in present times. Fallon argues that Paradise Lost is not a political testament, however, and to read its lines as a critique of allegiances and ideologies outside the work is limit the range and scope of critical inquiry and to miss the larger purpose of the political imagery within the poem. That imagery, the author proposes, like that of all Milton's later works, serves to illuminate the spiritual message, a vision of the human soul caught up in the struggle between vast metaphysical forces of good and evil. Fallon seeks to enlarge the range of critical inquiry by assessing the influence of personal and historical events upon art, asking, as he puts it, "not what the poetry says about the events, but what the events say about the poetry." Divided Empire probes, not Milton's judgment on his sources, but the use he made of them. |
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... Adam and Eve ( Chapter 5 ) , the destruction of the world ( Chapter 7 ) , and the divinity of Christ ( Chapter 8 ) - only Chapters 3 and 6 seem unreservedly political . This is not to claim resolution of any of these frequently ...
... Adam and Eve , as “ Mankind , ” rule as equals ; according to Raphael , God intends them both to fill the Earth ... Adam recalls that at his birth the Creator entrusted the Earth to him and his race : “ as Lords / Possess it , and all ...
... Adam and Eve , hence the general pattern of these relationships was probably not inspired by the French arrangement ; but the internal dynamics of the French monarchy accorded so well with the biblical model in this regard – and , as we ...
... Adam and Eve as husband and wife in keeping with his definition of marriage in Christian Doctrine : “ a very intimate relation- ship between man and woman instituted by God for the procreation of children or the help and solace of life ...
... Adam and Eve have distinct roles , he does not rule her , nor does she him.10 Eve's proposal that they work at separate tasks , had it not resulted in the Fall , would have strengthened the image of co - rulers . The terms of the debate ...
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To Reign in Hell | 55 |
Heaven and Hell | 83 |
The Lords of the Earth | 97 |
Divided Empire | 119 |
The Final Things | 143 |
Embattled Humanity | 161 |
Works Cited | 180 |
Index | 186 |