The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 Shortly before Milton began his first official term (Easter term, 1625) he would have h ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 Charles Diodati, portraying him as a Platonic soulmate who shares his love of learn- in ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 abstentions and amid charges of undue pressure and a rigged election, the university vo ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 “frater verendus,” refer, as most critics suppose, to the deaths, respectively, of Chri ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 lines mix the heroic and the grotesque, florid expressions of awe and horror with irony ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 God. Provocatively, the comparison with the prophet Elijah forced to flee from King Aha ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 a naive young lover he sees courting the beautiful but faithless Pyrrha. The date is, h ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 grounds for patience and hope in her new pregnancy: “This if thou do he [God] will an o ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 tions. In Prolusion VI (July or August, 1628) Milton refers to an earlier oration which ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 with Bacon and other modernists committed to science and progress. Emphatically denying ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 upon college personages and situations. Milton registers surprise and some ironic pleas ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 or latent homosexuality. He concludes this address with a scoffing reference to the Isl ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 and King Charles, “the old fool and the young one.” In November the Court of Star Chamb ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 Invoking the Ciceronian triad – to delight, instruct, and persuade – he argues that Sch ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 the university honors list of twenty-four undergraduates in a graduating class of 259, ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 urges Milton to follow through with a projected outing, which is to be filled with the ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 Milton’s poem wittily sets his own holiday asceticism against Diodati’s indulgence: On ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 Milton is serious about reporting his high poetic aspirations and his ode On the Mornin ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 a crucial insight that he wished to mark formally, for himself and others. This failure ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 another love experience which may be wholly literary, although the sonnet lady’s name ( ...