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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... hence that this experience had a significant influence on his imagination . - That influence , as will appear , was both general and specific . It was general in that Milton conceived of the cosmic struggle between good and evil as a ...
... Hence , the prose , like the sonnets , is for the most part 9. When the subject is raised , some names spring immediately to mind : Don M. Wolfe ( Milton in the Puritan Revolution ) , Arthur Barker ( Milton and the Puritan Dilemma ...
... hence it operates under a different imperative entirely , engaging the dynamic of poetic expression and appealing to a faculty of comprehension that tran- scends pure reason . It can do more , it can say more , than a systematic ...
... hence some restatement of that earlier material is unavoidable . To avoid troubling the reader with the need to juggle two other books in order to make sense of this one , I summarize the historical accounts in sufficient detail to ...
... Hence , textual reference to individual scholars and their works is reserved for those occasions when it serves to illustrate elements of the argument . Agreement or disagreement with current interpretation of Milton's political thought ...
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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 |