The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 unforthcoming about his vocational plans. Clearly, this friend was not an intimate with whom Mil ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 odes on religious themes in complex metrical patterns, perfecting in them the long, elaborate ve ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 then imagines that we might answer their song “with undiscording voice” as we did before sin dis ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 tensive revisions that do some violence to Milton’s conception and with which he had little or n ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 green and a fine church, Saint Michael’s, with a magnificent Norman doorway and other parts dati ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 Latin, Greek, and Italian, with some later entries in English and French. Shawcross speculates t ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 In 1637 there were several plague deaths in Horton, and in that year also Milton had to confront ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 Whatever else might contribute to Milton’s new emphasis on chastity and virginity at this junctu ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 brother and looked for him in his old haunts without success. He chides Diodati for failing to k ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 Know that I cannot help loving people like you. For though I do not know what else God may have ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 clerics and other college fellows like King himself – associate King closely with the church and ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 have given Milton senior some pause, coupled as they evidently were with re- quests that, after ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 now, after more than five years’ study and soul-searching, ready to proclaim un- hesitatingly “N ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 in 1637 let A Maske be published without his name. Those gestures, and the exam- ple of Lycidas ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 role could provide a livelihood in itself, except for playwrights or commercial hacks. A gentlem ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 “Growing My Wings” In all its stages but most emphatically in its final forms (1637/1645), Milto ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 ter with Comus, this is not a drama but a masque, as its title indicates. Dances are at the hear ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 of life and art, but now in starker terms of good and evil. Comus’s perversion of natural sensua ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 true principle of nature. But she, pointing to his earlier lies and to the beast-headed creature ...

“Studious Retirement” 1632–1638 If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate, and beseeming share Of that which ...