Milton's Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration

Milton's Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration

by PhillipJ.Donnelly (Author)

Synopsis

John Milton's major poems have long provoked wide-ranging judgements about the purposes of his biblical engagement. In this elegant and insightful study, Phillip J. Donnelly transforms our common perceptions about Milton's writing. He challenges the traditional assumption that the poet shared our modern view that reason is a capacity whose purpose is to control nature. Instead, Milton's conception of reason - both human and divine - is bound up with a poetic sense of difference, a capacity for being faithful to a goodness and beauty that survives the effects of human frailty in the fall. Providing fresh new readings of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Donnelly gives us important new perspectives on Milton's aesthetics, theology and politics.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 19 Feb 2009

ISBN 10: 0521509734
ISBN 13: 9780521509732

Author Bio
Phillip J. Donnelly is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors College at Baylor University, where he teaches in the Great Texts Program and the English Department.