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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... on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI Z39.48-1992 . Preface 1 The Image of Rule France and the Kingdoms.
... Kingdoms of the Imagination A Handmaid to Truth 2 The Kingdom of Heaven God the Father God the Son 3 To Reign in Hell The Great Consult The Voyage vii 1 4 18 25 26 42 55 62 72 4 Heaven and Hell 83 5 The Lords of the Earth 97 ...
... kingdom of God on Earth , and no moral taint should be attached to a man so persuaded of the hallowed justice of his cause . Indeed , the experience greatly enhanced Milton's later works , espe- cially in the description of Satan as a ...
... kingdom of Spain . On his return he visited ancestral duchies in Ferrara and Milan ; spent a month in Venice , ruled by a commercial oligarchy ; and stopped in Geneva , a Protestant theocracy . It cannot be said , however , that the ...
... Kingdoms of the Imagination From the evidence of Paradise Lost , it would appear that of these many political ... kingdom of France gave every outward appearance of a nation governed by co - rulers ; or so it must have seemed to ...
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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 |