Milton''s Complex Words - Essays on the Conceptual Structure of Paradise Lost

Explores the specific meanings of key words in Milton's Paradise Lost and the diverse ways in which the characters of Milton's poem use and misuse these concepts.

List of contents

• Preface


• A Note on Texts and Abbreviations


• 1: Alone


• 2: Art


• 3: Chance, Fate, and Providence


• 4: Change


• 5: Choice


• 6: Dark and Light


• 7: Desire


• 8: Ease


• 9: Envy


• 10: Equal


• 11: Evil


• 12: Fall


• 13: Fancy and Reason


• 14: Free


• 15: God


• 16: Grace


• 17: Hope


• 18: I


• 19: Idol and Image


• 20: If and Perhaps


• 21: Knowledge and Wisdom


• 22: Love


• 23: Naked


• 24: New and Old


• 25: Not


• 26: Re-


• 27: See and Seem


• 28: Self


• 29: Within


• 30: ?


• Afterword


• Bibliography

About the author

Paul Hammond was educated at Peter Symonds' School, Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Prize Fellow in English. He is currently Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002. His previous publications include Milton and the People (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) and Racine's Roman Tragedies: Essays on 'Britannicus' and 'Berenice' (Leiden: Brill, 2022) co-edited with Nicholas Hammond.

Summary

Explores the specific meanings of key words in Milton's Paradise Lost and the diverse ways in which the characters of Milton's poem use and misuse these concepts.

Additional text

Milton's Complex Words brilliantly demonstrates Hammond's skills as a close reader, supremely attentive to how the varied definitions of his key words ... contribute to the meanings of Paradise Lost.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hammond, Prof Paul (Professor of Seventeenth-Centu Hammond
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2023
• EAN: 9780198891918
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889191-8
• No. of pages: 498
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets