Milton & Wordsworth, poets and prophets : a study of their reactions to political events
1960, Third Edition. London : Chatto and Windus. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #434195
Physical description; 185 pages 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Prophetic poetry; the Hebrew prophets -- John Milton and the Renaissance theory of poetry; a poem "doctrinal to a nation"; the awakening; the "reform of reformation" -- The first shock; marriage and divorce; a pause in pamphleteering and return to poetry; the first decisive step ; regicide -- The dismissal of Parliament; Milton and Cromwell -- The final return to poetry; Milton's early poems; Paradise lost; its doctrine and its temper; the prophetic and the poetic in the poem; Milton's diction and verse -- Paradise regained; Milton's Christ; Samson agonistes; Milton's final vindication of himself and those he followed in the great deeds of the Rebellion -- Wordsworth and the French Revolution; a contrast with Milton. Subjects; Milton, John 1608-1674 Political and social views. Wordsworth, William 1770-1850. Milton, John 1608-1674. Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 Political and social views. Political and social views. Politics and literature.
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