Milton: Modern Judgements

Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Introduction....Pages 11-25
Chronology....Pages 27-28
Milton and the Cult of Conformity (1956)....Pages 29-43
The Pattern of Milton’s ‘Nativity Ode’ (1940)....Pages 44-57
‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso’ in their Relation to Seventeenth-century Poetry (1951)....Pages 58-93
Flowerets and Sounding Seas: a study in the affective structure of ‘Lycidas’ (1951)....Pages 94-103
‘Not so much a teaching as an intangling’: Milton’s Method in Paradise Lost 1 (1967)....Pages 104-135
The Motivation of Satan’s Rebellion in Paradise Lost (1945)....Pages 136-150
Milton’s Prelapsarian Adam (1945)....Pages 151-172
Eve’s Awakening (1954)....Pages 173-188
Time and Eternity: Paradox and Structure in Paradise Lost (1960)....Pages 189-204
The Drama of Paradise Lost, Books XI and XII (1962)....Pages 205-218
From Shadowy Types To Truth (1965)....Pages 219-232
Milton’s Heroes (1950)....Pages 233-269
Milton’s Rhetoric (1959)....Pages 270-295
‘Hail wedded love’ (1946)....Pages 296-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-320