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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... observes , “ Ideology , especially when its workings are unrecognized , unacknowledged , distorts and disfigures interpretation . " 5 Milton surely drew his political imagery from his experience , whether from the many books he read or ...
... observes that " the De doctrina is the presentation of this body of belief in the manner of a systematic theology , and the principles that directed this logical presentation are those detailed in Milton's Artis Logicae ” ( This Great ...
... observes , until a revolutionary tribunal brought Charles I to trial and condemned him to death ( Prose 4 : 626 ) . Up till then , Milton's thought had only hovered around the edge of politics . Areopagitica is addressed to the ...
... observes , " They acted like a family because they were a family . ” 7 Such was the state of the French monarchy during the years when one of Milton's primary functions was the preparation of letters to France ; indeed the thirty - one ...
... observes that “ Paradise is less a monarchy than an aristocracy of two with Adam as Primus inter pares ” ( Civil Idolatry 183 ) . In an interesting turn of history , some fourteen years after Milton's death co - rulers mounted the ...
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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 |