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Milton's Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration

Milton's Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration

Donnelly, Phillip J.

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Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1107404517
ISBN13: 9781107404519
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 10 2012
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John Milton's major poems have long provoked wide-ranging judgments about the purposes of his biblical engagement. In this elegant and insightful study, Phillip J. Donnelly transforms our common perceptions about Milton's writing. He challenges the traditional assumption that the poet shared our modern view that reason is a capacity whose purpose is to control nature. Instead, Milton's conception of reason - both human and divine - is bound up with a poetic sense of difference, a capacity for being faithful to a goodness and beauty that survives the effects of human frailty in the fall. Providing fresh new readings of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Donnelly gives us important new perspectives on Milton's aesthetics, theology and politics.

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