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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
2005
Online ISBN:
9780511483882
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483882
Subjects:
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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Book description

In Paradise Lost (1667), Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man. In this wide-ranging study, William Poole presents a comprehensive analysis of the origin, evolution, and contemporary discussion of the Fall, and the way seventeenth-century authors, particularly Milton, represented it. Poole first examines the range and depth of early modern thought on the subject, then explains and evaluates the basis of the idea and the intellectual and theological controversies it inspired from early Christian times to Milton's own century. The second part of the book delves deeper into the development of Milton's own thought on the Fall, from the earliest of his poems, through his prose, to his mature epic. Poole distinguishes clearly for the first time the range and complexity of contemporary debates on the Fall of man, and offers many insights into the originality and sophistication of Milton's work.

Awards

Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award for Distinguished Book from the Milton Society of America'

Reviews

Review of the hardback:'… thoroughly researched, well-written and often fascinating … Milton and the Idea of the Fall repays careful reading: it is rich, detailed and intelligent.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

Review of the hardback:'Milton and the Idea of the Fall offers a radical rereading of Milton that takes religion seriously without losing sight of the political stakes.'

Source: Modern Language Review

Review of the hardback:'Milton and the Idea of the Fall is one of those specialist books that open out to change not only the way we think about Milton, but also the way we conceive of the period.'

Source: Modern Language Review

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