The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

Epilogue surrogate. In Great Expectations Dickens presents Pip’s fall as a bourgeois parody of Adam’s, both of them “fondly over ...

Epilogue embodying, Melville thinks, Milton’s own profound questioning of theodicy: “Provi- dence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate ...

Epilogue Milton as well as Homer and Dante for some elements of theme and style. Aldous Huxley evoked the poignant description o ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Notes Chapter 1 “The Childhood Shews the Man” 1608–1625 1 British Library Add Ms 32310. Milton made this entr ...

Notes to Chapter 1 11 These four songs and six new ones appeared in a manuscript collection (1616) by Tho- mas Myriell called Tr ...

Notes to Chapter 1 laeta ter ora mero” (Poems, 1645; Hughes’s translation). Unless otherwise indicated, Milton poems quoted in t ...

Notes to Chapter 1 in Austin Texas, at the Humanities Research Center (Pre-1700 Manuscript 127); there is an autotype in the Pub ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Register of Christ’s College, 1505–1905, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1910–13), I, 387, 414–16. Other poets of Christ’s ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Sidney’s Arcadia, Quarles, and Purchas his Pilgrimage. Also, a few books of (chiefly an- cient) cosmography, ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Protestant circle. His father was chaplain in the Harington household and he and Charles Diodati’s father ser ...

Notes to Chapter 1 41 Milton’s unique use of the Latin ordinal “undevigesimo” in dating this poem suggests that it means “in his ...

Notes to Chapter 1 occasion is lost. I see no convincing reason, however, to accept John Shawcross’s alter- native dating – June ...

Notes to Chapter 1 luxuriosa sinus, / Atque Arabum spirat messes, & ab ore venusto /... Sic Tellus lasciva suos suspirat amo ...

Notes to Chapter 1 ous Latin lines, “Te quoque pressa manent patriis meditata cicutis; / Tu mihi, cui recitem, judicis instar er ...

Notes to Chapter 1 as expected, after the eighth line. See Smart, Sonnets of Milton; F. T. Prince, The Italian Element in Milton ...

Notes to Chapter 1 95 LR I, 227, 243, 257; V, 381; Parker, II, 807. 96 Masson, I, 254–7; Mullinger, University of Cambridge, III ...

Notes to Chapter 1 113 For Renaissance melancholy, see Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, and Fritz Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy ...

Notes to Chapter 1 out against her wishes to a defaulting debtor. He also made a large profit by buying back at a large discount ...

Notes to Chapter 1 17 Prynne, Histrio-Mastix (London, 1633 [1634]), sig. *** ; Walter Montague, The Shepheard’s Paradise (London ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Brown (Aristocratic Entertainments, 20) doubts, reasonably, that Milton would allude directly to the scandal ...