Milton, Jerome, and Apocalyptic Virginity
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2018.3
Abstract: Milton's youthful interest in virginity is usually regarded as a private eccentricity abandoned on his maturation. His “Mask” is often read, analogously, as charting the Lady's movement from temporary virginity to wedded chastity. This essay… read more here.
Keywords: jerome apocalyptic; virginity; milton jerome; milton ... See more keywords
National Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England. Ryan Hackenbracht. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. xx + 214 pp. $49.95.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.605
Abstract: that of God rather than vice versa; for him, this surrender means not defeat but peace and action” (141). At the midpoint of the book, we shift from playwrights to poets. The matters of genre… read more here.
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Milton’s Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Catherine Gimelli Martin. Routledge Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture. London: Routledge, 2017. xvi + 318 pp. $140.
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DOI: 10.1086/700550
Abstract: Samson Agonistes, though not a flaw per se, is a bit surprising, as is the limited presence of the early poetry. The notion that the mature Milton was fully committed to heretical monism, though certainly… read more here.
Keywords: anglo italian; renaissance; italy anglo; milton ... See more keywords
Auden, Auden’s Milton, and Songs for Virgins
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DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frz005
Abstract: Deep though unexplored currents of W.H. Auden’s incipient Christian theology in ‘Song for St Cecilia’s Day’ become clearer when we read the poem with an eye on John Milton’s madrigal ‘At a Solemn Music’ and… read more here.
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"Who would not sing for Lycidas?": Milton's Satirical Reform of the Justa Edouardo King
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DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0006
Abstract: Abstract:This essay argues that John Milton's Lycidas is a considerably more satirical poem than has traditionally been recognized and that among the chief targets of its encrypted criticism are its fellow elegies in Edward King's… read more here.
Keywords: justa edouardo; justa; edouardo king; milton ... See more keywords