JOHN MILTON. Milton - the battling Milton - is the most dramatic figure in all English literature. His life was a tragedy in three acts. The first discovers him in the calm and peaceful retirement of Horton; in the second act he was breathing the foul an

JOHN MILTON

Required reading: Milton J. “Paradise Lost”, “Paradise Regained”, “Samson Agonistes” Пушкин А.С. О Мильтоне и переводе «Потерянного Рая» Шатобрианом. // Собр. соч. М., 1969. Т.6, сс.315-323.

Brodey K., Malgaretti F. Focus on English and American Literature. M., 2003. Pp.45-50.

Supplementary literature: Eliot T. S. On Milton. // On Poetry and Poets. N.Y., 1953.

Урнов Д.В. Английская критика и литературный процесс. // Английский литературно-критический очерк. М., 1979. Cc. 24-25.

1.Milton - the battling Milton - is the most dramatic figure in all English literature. His life was a tragedy in three acts. The first discovers him in the calm and peaceful retirement of Horton; in the second act he was breathing the foul and heated atmosphere of religious hate generating the fires which glare in his prose pamphlets; the three great poems "PARADISE LOST", "PARADISE REGAINED" and "SAMSON AGONISTES" were the utterance of his final period of solitary and Promethean grandeur, when, blind, destitute, friendless, he testifies of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come alone before a foreign world. Prove the opinion that Milton’s life is a drama in three acts.

2. “Paradise Lost” as a classicist epic of obedience and disobedience.

Milton framed his poem again on epic lines. At first he had not intended to make so much of the cosmic and demonic interests. In particular he did not intend to make so much of Satan; but in the first book of Paradise Lost Satan became the glorious bearer of Milton^’s own sin of impatience with the Lord, or in the jargon of psychology to "sublimate" his outraged sense of justice and the ripening .of his injured pride. Satan, of course, is not Milton, and in a total view he is not the hero of the poem; but at the beginning he is the "agonist", who struggles as Milton had been struggling and reacts as Nature tempted Milton to react.

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JOHN MILTON. Milton - the battling Milton - is the most dramatic figure in all Eng­lish literature. His life was a tragedy in three acts. The first discovers him in the calm and peaceful retirement of Horton; in the second act he was breathing the foul an

JOHN MILTON. Milton - the battling Milton - is the most dramatic figure in all English literature. His life was a tragedy in three acts. The first discovers him in the calm and peaceful retirement of Horton; in the second act he was breathing the foul an