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How did Milton's understanding of history relate to his literary expression of it? This book explores the role of history in Milton's literary works. It focuses on the writer's imaginative responses to the historical process - his interpretations of the past, visions of the future, and sense of the contemporary historical moment. David Loewenstein presents Milton as a controversial writer actively engaged in shaping, representing and participating in the drama of history of his age. Highlighting the apocalyptic and iconoclastic components of Milton's historical vision, the book examines the more turbulent dimensions of his polemic and poetic works. It stresses the importance of his less canonical texts, including Eikonoklastes and the History of Britain, and shows how they illuminate the sense of history dramatized in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Analysing the literary expressions of Milton's radicalism, this study reveals a complex interaction between consciousness and figurative expression, political vision and textual effects.

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ALTHOUGH THEY are occasional works emerging from the pamphlet warfare of his age, Milton's early revolutionary polemics - the five antiprelatical tracts he published between May 1641 and April 1642 - reveal his remarkable sensitivity to the historical process. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries
English
British Isles
English Poetry
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Great Britain
Historical poetry, English
Historiography
History and criticism
Literary Criticism
Literature
Literature and history
Milton, John
Poetry


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