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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... triumvirate was once again complete , with godfather , mother , and son reunited . " After Louis's coronation the cardinal contin- ued to exercise the power of the throne , as Milton's companion letters confirm ; and the queen , while ...
... triumvirate " at the helm of state . 13 In Paradise Lost this pattern is duplicated , obviously , in the Holy Trinity of Heaven and the unholy one in Hell . And then also , while Chaos and " Sable - vested Night " preside over the ...
... triumvirate dissolved . At the cosmic level , God recalls the angelic guards , to that time the most tangible evidence of his participation in the rule of Earth , raises the celestial stairs ( 3 : 519-21 ) , and expels Adam and Eve from ...
... triumvirate includes Eve , of course ; but God withdraws as a consequence of the Fall , to be replaced after the Resurrection by the Holy Spirit , whose gender on Earth is entirely ambiguous , perhaps deliberately so for Milton's ...
... triumvirate in Hell by enticing Sin and Death to leave the realm , occupy Earth , and reign there as his " Substitutes ” ( 10 : 403 ) , thereby adroitly disposing of the only other claimant to the throne . The rule of Satan in Hell ...
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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 |