Milton's Angels
The Early-Modern Imagination
Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background.Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them rely on his understanding of what they were and how they acted. While he was unique in the sublimity of his imaginative rendering of angels, he was not alone in writing about them. Several early-modern Engli…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160975-6
- EAN: 9780191609756
- Produktnummer: 13996159
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'380 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 black-and-white halftones
Über den Autor
Joad Raymond is Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia. He was educated at Howardian High school in Cardiff, the University of East Anglia and Oxford University, and taught at Oxford and the University of Aberdeen before taking up his post at UEA. He is the author of The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641-1649 (OUP, 1996) and Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (CUP, 2003), and editor ofseveral volumes of essays on Milton, newspapers and print culture. His edited volume The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He is presently editing Miltons Latin defences for the Oxford Edition of the Complete Worksof John Milton, and working on a project about transnational news networks in early-modern Europe. He lives in Swaffham Prior, and is a keen cook, parent, and marathon runner.
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