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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... angels bow with equal reverence , casting their crowns " to the ground / With solemn adoration " ( 3 : 350-51 ) . Milton employs this political oxymoron , the Son as both heir and king at once , to brighten the otherwise unpromising ...
... angelic hymns to the pair , in which the Son is said to sit " Second " to God ( 3 : 409 ) . The Son's status is not static , however ; he rises in the estimation of the community of Heaven after his conquest of the rebel angels , for ...
... genius of a particular man ......... . He sees him several times each day " ( Philipe Erlanger , Louis XIV , 100 ) . 13. Kleinman , Anne of Austria , 230 , 243 . the dwellings of just Men " and send his angels The Image of Rule 11.
... angels as emissaries for “ frequent intercourse " ( 7 : 569-71 ) with the race . The changes wrought by the Fall are dramatic , for in political terms the equality of man and woman is shattered and the triumvirate dissolved . At the ...
... angels , he makes reference in Paradise Lost to the traditional eight degrees - seraphim , cherabim , thrones , dominations , virtues , powers , principalities , and angels . The absence of archangel from the list , West explains ...
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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 |