Milton among the Philosophers : : Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England / / Stephen M. Fallon.
While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philos...
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Fallon, Stephen M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Milton among the Philosophers : Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England / Stephen M. Fallon. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2007 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mechanical Life: Descartes, Hobbes, and the Implications of Mechanism -- 2. The Life of the Soul: The Cambridge Reaction -- 3. Material Life: Milton's Animist Materialism -- 4. Milton and Anne Conway -- 5. Milton's True Poem and the Substance of Epic Angels -- 6. Sin and Death: The Substance of Allegory -- 7. To Shadowy Types from Truth: Satan's Mechanist Descent -- 8. "After Another Method": Sacred War as Philosophical Battle -- Epilogue -- Index -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philosophical systems that filled the vacuum left by the repudiation of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. In what has become the classic account of Milton's animist materialism, Fallon revises our understanding of Milton's philosophical sophistication. The book offers a new interpretation of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost as a clash of metaphysical systems, with free will hanging in the balance. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Materialism in literature. Philosophy in literature. Philosophy, English 17th century. Literary Studies. Poetry & Criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724053 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501724053 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501724053/original |
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