Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in Milton's Great Poems

by Howard Mumford Jones and Joan S. Bennett

Milton's Great Poems--Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes--are here examined in the light of his lifelong commitment to the English revolutionary cause. The poems, Joan Bennett shows, reflect the issues Milton had dealt with in theological and public policy debate, foreign diplomacy, and propaganda; moreover, they work innovatively with these issues, reaching in epic and tragedy answers that his pamphlets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674766970
• ISBN13: 9780674766976
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"