This study examines Milton's literary culture and its relation to his Protestant beliefs. It brings together analyses of "Paradise Lost" and its intellectual context in an attempt to provide a fresh picture of its historical place and a new critical approach. Arguing that "Paradise Lost" shows a conflict of concern between Milton's humanism and his Protestant Christianity, it looks in detail at the processes of volition within the poem, and maintains that Milton's insights into error, guilt, and repentance owe more to his religion than to his literary culture, Other theorists on Milton's humanism are outlined and there is a comparative discussion of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered" and "Absalam and Achitophel".
- ISBN10 0748604014
- ISBN13 9780748604012
- Publish Date 22 March 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 August 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English