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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... courts . Although Milton's vision of the ruling bodies of his realms owed much to his knowledge of the French monarchy , the model for his court hierarchy lay elsewhere entirely , in the complex numerology of the medieval system of ...
... courts of seventeenth - century Europe . London , Paris , and the papal court of Rome , to mention only capital cities that the poet visited , were the scenes of courts populated by a colorful array of greater and lesser nobility ...
... court attended by a similar hierarchy of eight : Orcus , Ades , Demogorgon , Rumor , Chance , Tumult , Confusion ... courts did assume that same design , evolving into the elaborate pattern of Renaissance rule with a king attended by a ...
... court's lesser hierarchy , reappearing there to achieve the necessary eight attendants on the king ( 2 : 965 ) . In Heaven the co - rulers are male figures , on Earth man and woman , and in France man and boy . One could go on . A great ...
... court in Bruges ( Antonia Fraser , Royal Charles , 141-52 ) . 22. The Roman triumvirates of 55 and 43 B.C. would have alerted him to the dangers , certainly . 23. Austin Woolrych , " Milton and Cromwell , " 210-12 ; Barker , Milton and ...
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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 |