The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 but Mr. Tovey only.” Formal exercises were deferred to December 16.^83 If Milton return ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 butions to the spate of collegiate versifying prompted by the death of Hobson the carri ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 brought family changes. February, 1631, saw the death of the niece Elizabeth whose pros ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 The oration reprises many Miltonic themes – denunciation of the university and its curr ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 Milton took some pride in having preserved his virginity at Cambridge, motivated by rel ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 There, untouched by any reproach, in the good graces of all upright men, for seven year ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 anticipated but deferred restoration of the Golden Age against that celebration of the ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 wisest Fate sayes no” (l. 154). Another strategy that Milton uses to impressive effect ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 on the classical hymn. But they also incorporate elements of several other kinds: the a ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 L’Allegro is a praise of youthful mirth, innocent joy, lighthearted pleasure, free- dom ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 for innocent delight by excising any hint of licentiousness, or courtly Neoplatonism, o ...

“Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–1632 what Love did seek” (l. 108). Finally, il Penseroso turns to Christian music that produ ...

3 “Studious Retirement”: Hammersmith and Horton 1632–1638 When Milton graduated from Cambridge in July, 1632, he went to live wi ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 no public recognition as a poet. Yet he refused to present himself in the public arena: his epit ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 Hammersmith was a hamlet on the north bank of the Thames in the parish of Fulham, about seven mi ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 forbade any dispute in sermons or tracts about the meaning of any of the Thirty- nine Articles. ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 the discordant elements represented in the antimasques – unruly passions, discon- tented and mut ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 William Prynne staked out the most extreme Puritan position in Histrio-Mastix: or, The Players S ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 occasions Castlehaven had his servants rape his wife and stepdaughter (who was married to his ow ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 lent queen,^30 a gesture that associates the better aesthetics he is promoting with the virtues ...