Milton and the Making of ‹i›Paradise Lost‹/i› / / William Poole.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Poole, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; PART ONE: MILTON --; 1. The Undertaking --; 2. School and the Gils --; 3. An Anxious Young Man --; 4. Ambitions --; 5. Milton’s Syllabus --; 6. Securing a Reputation --; 7. Two Problematic Books --; 8. Systematic Theology --; 9. Drafts for Dramas --; 10. Two Competitors: Davenant and Cowley --; 11. Going Blind --; 12. The Undertaking, Revisited --; 13. Bibliographical Interlude: Publishing Paradise Lost --; PART TWO: PARADISE LOST --; 14. Structure --; 15. Creating a Universe --; 16. Epic Disruption --; 17. Military Epic --; 18. Scientific Epic --; 19. Pastoral Tragedy --; 20. Contamination and Doubles --; 21. Justifying the Ways of God to Men --; 22. Becoming a Classic --; Appendix: Milton’s Classroom Authors --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982673; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982673
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William Poole.

William Poole recounts Milton's life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole explores how Milton’s life and preoccupations inform the poem itself—its structure, content, and meaning.