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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Yale University Press Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter III The True Bearing of Milton's Prose MTHE attainment of Milton's high ambition, - the growth of which has just been traced, was long delayed by more urgent duties of another sort. He was still 'in Italy, enriching his mind by study and converse with cultured literary men, when the disquieting news came of political troubles at home. At once the high-minded Puritan returned to London that he might hold himself in readiness should the call come. He had a few pupils to occupy him, and his own studies; but the muse in those days seemed indeed thankless, and the poet soon found himself embroiled in the work of pamphleteering for the Puritan cause. From 1641, when his first tract appeared, until 1660, when his last plea for liberty was penned, his energies were given mainly to the needs of the hour. Only the edition of the Minor Poems, published in 1645, and several of his finest sonnets, would remind the Puritan patriots, and perhaps even the author himself, that a rare, poetic genius was apparently being sacrificed in the cause of freedom. There can be no doubt that Milton regarded the enforced occupation of pamphleteering as a serious interruption to his life's purpose. He would have preferred studious retirement had it not been for the realization that knowledge and intellectual power bring grave responsibilities, to which he, like the prophets of old, was forced to sacrifice his ease and pleasure. He turn...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780548039410
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 539 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548039410
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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