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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... 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 Prelapsarian Rule Postlapsarian Rule Fulfilled All Justice 6 Divided Empire Cosmic Conflict 98 103 113 119 121 The ...
... reign together , “ God and Messiah his anointed King ” ( 6 : 718 , 5 : 664 , 6:43 ) , seated on separate thrones ... reign for ever , and assume / Thy Merits " ( 3 : 317-19 ) . The pattern prevails in Hell , where Satan aspires to reign ...
... Reign ” ( 2 : 961-63 ) , “ Consort ” here meaning “ a colleague in office or authority , " without any implication of gender ( the OED cites these lines as example ) . Satan addresses the two as equals ( 2 : 970 ) and promises that on ...
... Reign " ( 6 : 886-88 ) , and after his offer to die for Man , upon which God commands the Heavenly host to “ Adore ... reigns in Hell is left unresolved at the infernal gates , after Satan's conquest of Earth his status is much enhanced ...
... reigns over the realm of " old Night " while it is perhaps Chance who " imbroils the fray " ( 2 : 908 ) by which they rule . As we have seen , the dynamics of the ruling bodies of Heaven and Hell change as well , with the rise in 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 |