Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Versions of anti-humanism Versions of anti-humanism Stanley Fish "Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand … OL16299181W
The new Milton criticism The new Milton criticism Elizabeth Sauer,Peter C. Herman "The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume … OL16451288W
The Cambridge introduction to Milton The Cambridge introduction to Milton Stephen B. Dobranski "John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensi… OL16464945W
To repair the ruins To repair the ruins Louis Schwartz,Mary C. Fenton "Twelve essays by esteemed Milton scholars offer fresh perspectives on the significance of close reading for Milton criticism, examining how close reading may function as an act of recovery, an attem… OL16672727W
Milton and the manuscript of De doctrina Christiana Milton and the manuscript of De doctrina Christiana Fiona J. Tweedie,John K. Hale,Thomas N. Corns,Gordon Campbell xii, 180 pages : 23 cm OL18207441W
Coming of age as a poet Coming of age as a poet Helen Hennessy Vendler "To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem - a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style - is to come of age as a poet. By lookin… OL1851117W
Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Lucy Newlyn Was Milton on the side of the angels or the devils? Was he republican or anti-republican, feminist or misogynist? Did he value innocence or experience? This book shows how the Romantic reader respond… OL4273099W
Transported styles in Shakespeare and Milton Transported styles in Shakespeare and Milton Harold E. Toliver Beginning with the distinctions between rhetoric and poetry, Harold Toliver examines the interplay of functional speech, assigned the task of moving plots, and poetry's sublime transport to hypotheti… OL4305613W
The throne and the chariot The throne and the chariot Kitty O. Cohen xii, 191 p. ; 21 cm OL4988481W