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020			_a9780674982673 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPR3581 _b.M558 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aPoole, William, _d1977- _e1
245	1	0	_aMilton and the making of Paradise lost /William Poole.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)
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520	0		_aMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected national poet and explains how the single greatest poem of the English language came to be written. In early 1642 Milton--an obscure private schoolmaster--promised English readers a work of literature so great that "they should not willingly let it die." Twenty-five years later, toward the end of 1667, the work he had pledged appeared in print: the epic poem Paradise Lost. In the interim, however, the poet had gone totally blind and had also become a controversial public figure--a man who had argued for the abolition of bishops, freedom of the press, the right to divorce, and the prerogative of a nation to depose and put to death an unsatisfactory ruler. These views had rendered him an outcast. William Poole devotes particular attention to Milton's personal situation: his reading and education, his ambitions and anxieties, and the way he presented himself to the world. Although always a poet first, Milton was also a theologian and civil servant, vocations that informed the composition of his masterpiece. At the emotional center of this narrative is the astounding fact that Milton lost his sight in 1652. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole opens up the epic worlds and sweeping vistas of Milton's masterpiece to modern readers, first by exploring Milton's life and intellectual preoccupations and then by explaining the poem itself--its structure, content, and meaning.-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aPart 1: Milton -- _tThe undertaking -- _tSchool and the Gils -- _tAn anxious young man -- _tAmbitions -- _tMilton's syllabus -- _tSecuring a reputation -- _tTwo problematic books -- _tSystematic theology -- _tDrafts for dramas -- _tTwo competitors: Davenant and Cowley -- _tGoing blind -- _tThe undertaking, revisited -- _tBibliographical interlude: publishing Paradise lost -- _tPart 2: Paradise Lost -- _tStructure -- _tCreating a universe -- _tEpic disruption -- _tMilitary epic -- _tScientific epic -- _tPastoral tragedy -- _tContamination and doubles -- _tJustifying the ways of God to men -- _tBecoming a classic.
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655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1619677&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell