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Informationen zum Autor John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674. Klappentext The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being. Zusammenfassung The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Portable Milton - Edited by Douglas Bush Introduction Bibliography Chronology I. Early Poems, 1628-1640 Editor's Note At a Vacation Exercise in the College (extract) Elegy V: On the Coming of Spring Song: On May Morning Elegy VI: To Charles Diodati, Visiting in the Country On the Morning of Christ's Nativity On Shakespeare L'Allegro In Penseroso Arcades Sonnet VII: How soon hath Time Comus Lycidas Lament for Damon II. Prose Works and Sonnets, 1642-1658 Editor's Note The Reason of Church Government Urged against Prelaty (extract) An Apology for Smectymnuus (extract) Of Education Areopagitica Second Defence of the English People (extract) Sonnets VIII. When the Assault Was Intended to the City X. To the Lady Margaret Ley XI. On the Detraction Which Followed upon My Writing Certain Treatises XII. On the Same ("I did but prompt the age") On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on His Airs XV. On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester XIX. When I consider how my light is spent XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger XVIII. On the Late Massacre in Piemont XX. Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son XXI. Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench XXII. To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness XXIII. Methought I saw my late espoused saint III. The Major Poems Editor's Note Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Glossary of Words and Proper Names...
