The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 have been created “sufficient” to stand alone against temptation and that tempta- tio ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Milton’s epic turns into an Eviad, casting Eve rather than Adam in the role of centra ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 on the restoration of the fallen earth to its paradisal beauty, so that “the Earth / ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Milton’s poignant, quiet, marvelously evocative final lines are elegiac in sub- stanc ...

14 “To Try, and Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 The final years of Milton’s life were busy and productive. The comforts of home ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 “I Was to Do My Part from Heav’n Assign’d” On June 28, 1669, publication of Milton’s Accedence ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 customarily wore a sword with a small silver hilt (EL 203). Despite the uselessness of a sword ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Lost that his nephew Edward Phillips included in his Latin essay on the major poets from Dante ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 an outward conformity.^14 The vociferous counterarguments by, among others, Thomas Tomkyns, ur ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 As well, these poems carry forward Milton’s effort to redefine the heroic for the modern age. ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 The final sentences of the History apply the moral lessons of the Norman Conquest and the enti ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 of portrait engravings includes Queen Henrietta Maria, Cromwell in armor, Fairfax, Gabriel Har ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 More... brought two witnesses... who might well have known the author, and who might, if asked ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Milton occasionally cites scripture himself and makes a few theological comments, but he does ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 absolutism; from Cavaliers and High Churchmen who saw toleration as treason against the church ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 case for Catholics, save to dismiss the brouhaha about the popish danger as a red herring crea ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 political, and literary. There is some evidence that Milton penned an answer, but thought bett ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 various issues and proposals. But his treatise makes no direct reference to the king’s Declara ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 denies them. The Arian and Socinian are charg’d to dispute against the Trinity: they affirm to ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 267–8). He also declares that fines and corporal punishment of Catholics do not accord with “t ...