Books written by Stephen B. Dobranski
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A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: Samson Agonistes
Todd finds the idea of feeding on grief or woe in Petrarch , Sonnet 104 : Pascomi di dolor ; in the comedy The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune ( 1589 ) : “ there feed upon thy woe ” ; and in Thomas Carew's “ To the Countess of ...
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Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England
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The Cambridge Introduction to Milton
This book makes Milton's works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.
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Milton's Visual Imagination: Imagery in Paradise Lost
10 Bruce Louden examines ten contra-factual constructions in Paradise Lost in relation to antecedents in the Iliad and Odyssey. See Louden, “Milton and the Appropriation of a Homeric Technique,” Classical and Modern Literature 16.4 ...
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Milton's Visual Imagination
In particular, Milton refers repeatedly to various aspects of heaven's architecture –“many a towered structure high” (I.733). In some places, he seems to envision heaven as a garden or pastoral landscape so that, for example, ...
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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
William Blake In The Age of Shakespeare , the second volume of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature , D. F. McKenzie has titled his contribution “ Printing in England from Caxton to Milton . " 2 The first to print a book in ...
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Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660
19 Wiseman, Drama and Politics in the English Civil War, 142–43. 20 Edmond, Rare Sir William Davenant, 126; Wiseman, Drama and Politics in the English Civil War, 142. 21 Davenant, Jovial Crew, loc. 906–41. 22 Clare, ed., Drama of the ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Milton
Stephen B. Dobranski. Figures 1 Milton's London residences. Wenceslaus hollar, A New Map ofthe Citties ofLondon, Westminster & ye Borough ofSouthwarke (1675). The British Library page 6 2 “Portrait of John Milton at the age of ten,” by ...
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Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660
The early modern period in Britain was defined by tremendous upheaval - the upending of monarchy, the unsettling of church doctrine, and the pursuit of a new method of inquiry based on an inductive experimental model.