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Milton's Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements
 
 
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by William Kolbrener (Author) "In considering the "spiritual architecture" of an England overflowing with "schismaticks and sectaries," Milton in the Areopagitica compares the "great reformation" of a nation to..." (more)
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The centrality of Milton to the study of English literature often obscures the intense debates that rage about his true allegiances. Was he a Christian republican or a committed individualist, a radical, heretical free thinker, or a traditional absolutist? In Milton's Warring Angels, William Kolbrener provides a critical account of the reception and interpretation of Milton's texts. The governing scheme of Milton criticism, the opposition of 'satanic' and 'angelic' readings, derives from a historiographical tradition rooted in the Enlightenment. Kolbrener claims that the privileging of reason over authority inevitably violates the meaning of Milton's texts. Milton's thought is articulated in lexicons which are never fully assimilable to paradigms of modernity drawn from the Enlightenment. Instead, Kolbrener illustrates how Milton's prose and poetry mediate between apparently contradictory positions. They join, without ever reconciling, the satanic and the angelic. By showing how Milton has for centuries resisted tendentious appropriations and reductive readings, Kolbrener explains the continuing critical fascination with this most enigmatic of writers.

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In considering the "spiritual architecture" of an England overflowing with "schismaticks and sectaries," Milton in the Areopagitica compares the "great reformation" of a nation to the building of Solomon's temple: "And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...(II 555). Read the first page
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