The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 ken rhythms, a striking use of imagery and sound effects, and intricate rhyming patterns (amon ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 sleep, and shaking her invincible locks” (CPW II, 558); he now takes the blinded and defeated ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 too weak in wisdom to cope with his woman. The Danites seek answers in a moralizing formula – ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 divinely appointed liberator and his party should do in defeat. In a brilliant charac- terizat ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 glory; and he sees himself making a self-respecting choice of work over idleness – to “drudge ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 otypes of the feminine. She takes great care about her appearance, sailing in like a ship “bed ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Readers are expected to supply the appropriate distinctions: Jael violated, for reli- gious an ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Any such readiness must involve recognizing the legitimacy of Samson’s earlier appeal to arms ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 with the Danites after the officer departs, he distinguishes between religious acts and the du ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 overtones, evoking the final destruction of Antichrist’s forces as well as stories in the Book ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 a heroic end to a heroic life (1,709–11); and the chorus concludes, “Living or dying thou hast ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 lyptic ending. The chorus, in terms that seem out of character for them, imagine Samson with h ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 leave his entire estate to her. His maidservant, Elizabeth Fisher, reported an episode in July ...

“Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 Milton’s daughters challenged Milton’s will, and the court determined that the conditions for ...

Epilogue: “Something... Written to Aftertimes” Milton has probably had a greater influence on major poets and writers over a lon ...

Epilogue dramatic version of Paradise Lost, Dryden imported couplet rhyme and royalist poli- tics, and his satiric brief epic, A ...

Epilogue in Milton’s poetry: the use of pastoral and the mix of Christian and classical super- natural elements in Lycidas, the ...

Epilogue scribed British colonial rule in the imagery of Satanic pomp and foolish resistance, citing Milton as one who helped co ...

Epilogue The second generation of Romantic poets were also aided in realizing their poetic visions through engagement with Milto ...

Epilogue Southey elaborated on and added to Dr Johnson’s criticisms of Milton, Thomas De Quincey offered a spirited defense of h ...