Paper -105 : Assignment : puriatn and Restoration Age

Prominent writer and his major work and his style of writing:

Hello readers,

           Here I'm going to discuss about John Milton, his works and his style of writing.

John Milton:

        "He can please when pleasure is required,

         but his peculiar power to astonish is immense."

                                                                       - Dr. Johnson

John Milton was a seventeenth century English poet whose works have greatly influenced literary world. Milton wrote poetry and prose between 1632 and 1674, and is most famous for his epic poetry. Milton,one only epic poet of English Literature. Exercised influence on a host of English poet like.

Milton's puritanism:

                     Puritan was a member of that party of English protestants who worked for the purification of the Church and Christianity . Milton is " not only the highest, but the completest type of puritan" in his poetry.

Influence of Renaissance: 

  

                    Milton was as much a child of Renaissance as that of Reformation. A critic rightly said about the influence of Renaissance on Milton : 

    

     "Like his great predecessors, he successfully   

     blended love of romance, enterprise and

   love of beauty with moral idealism and

  religious fervor."

 

Milton's Classicism:

      

       Milton was a great scholar of Latin and Greek literature. His use of epic similies like Homer and Vergil. His respect for the ancient literature and philosophy. His grand, heavy style of writing poetry and sublime theme.

Milton's Sense of Beauty: 

• Ll Penseroso
• To behold the wandering moon
• Riding near her highest noon
• Like one that had been led astray
• "Through the Heaven's wide pathless way."

Milton confessed;

           "He (God) has certainly inspired me,

             if any even we'ar inspired, with a

             passion for the good and beautiful."

Milton's style of writing: 

          The poetic style of John Milton, also known as Miltonic verse, Miltonic epic, or Miltonic blank verse, was a highly influential poetic structure popularized by Milton. Although Milton wrote earlier poetry, his influence is largely grounded in his later poems; Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

  

           " John Milton himself is in every line of 'Paradise Lost'...It is Milton himself whom you see; his Satan, his Adam, his Raphael, also his Eve -are all John Milton."

Famous Works:   

• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Areopagitica
• Lycidas
• Samson Agonistes                                                                  

Paradise Lost:

   

            Paradise Lost is one of the most recognized works in English literature. The first version, published in 1667, contained ten books. A later edition was published in 1674, which consisted of twelve books. Paradise Lost consists of more than 10,000 lines verse. It tells the story of Adam and Eve. 

                                                                                                                                                                 
Themes in the epic poem Paradise Lost.

1. Hierarchy and Order
2. Disobedience and Revolt
3. Sin and Innocent
4. Fre will and Predestination 

Political Contexts:

Paradise Lost incorporates the political tensions of Milton’s own day – he was writing during and after the Civil Wars in England, which saw King Charles I executed and the country temporarily controlled by a republican government, led by Oliver Cromwell, until Charles II returned to take up the throne – but deals complexly with both republicanism and the monarchy. Satan has long been seen by some critics as a republican hero, eloquent and determined, much more charming and persuasive than the ‘tyrannous’ and rather humourless character of God in the poem. But Royalist readers, especially after the Restoration, chose to see Satan as the figure of Cromwell seen through anti-republican eyes: someone who only pretended to believe in equality, who really wanted power for himself and whose project was doomed to fail.

                                                                      

   

                  

                 Crime and punishment in Paradise Lost

Characters: 

• The  Davil
• God
• Eve
• Michael
• Adam
• Son of God 
• Raphael 

                                                                                                                       "Of  man's disobedience and the fruit

            of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste

            brought death onto the World,  all our woe, 

            with loss of Edem.".       

                                                         - John Milton

               

          

Thank you!