Milton and the Spiritual Reader
Title | Milton and the Spiritual Reader PDF eBook |
Author | David Ainsworth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135896097 |
Milton and the Spiritual Reader examines spiritual reading in Areopagitica, Eikonoklastes, De Doctrina Christiana, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, comparing Miltonic spiritual reading with that of two of his Puritan contemporaries, Richard Baxter and George Fox.
Milton and the Spiritual Reader
Title | Milton and the Spiritual Reader PDF eBook |
Author | David Ainsworth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2008-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135896089 |
Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Milton’s later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading. Milton presents his own rigorous process of reading in order to instruct his readers how to advance their spiritual knowledge. Recent studies of Milton’s readers neglect this spiritual dimension and focus on politics. Since Milton considers the individual soul at least as important as the body politic, Ainsworth focuses on uncovering the spiritual characteristics of the reader Milton tries to shape through his texts. He also examines Milton’s reading practices without postulating the existence of some ideal or universal reader, and without assuming a gullible or easily manipulated reader. Milton does not simply hope for a fit audience, but writes to nurture fit readers. His works offer models of strenuous and suspicious close reading, subjecting all authors except God to the utmost of scrutiny. Milton presents Biblical interpretation as an interior struggle, a contention not between reader and text, but within that reader’s individual understanding of scripture. Ainsworth’s study rethinks the basic relationship between reading and religion in seventeenth-century England, and concludes that for Milton and his contemporaries, distinguishing divine truths in worldly texts required a spiritually guided form of close reading.
Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation
Title | Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation PDF eBook |
Author | David Ainsworth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2019-11-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0429603622 |
Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation: Reading through the Spirit constructs a musical methodology for interpreting literary text drawn out of John Milton’s poetry and prose. Analyzing the linkage between music and the Holy Spirit in Milton’s work, it focuses on harmony and its relationship to Milton’s theology and interpretative practices. Linking both the Spirit and poetic music to Milton’s understanding of teleology, it argues that Milton uses musical metaphor to capture the inexpressible characteristics of the divine. The book then applies these musical tools of reading to examine the non-trinitarian union between Father, Son, and Spirit in Paradise Lost, argues that Adam and Eve’s argument does not break their concord, and puts forward a reading of Samson Agonistes based upon pity and grace.
Paradise Lost
Title | Paradise Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cavanagh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813232465 |
"The author provides a book-by-book examination of Paradise Lost for the first-time reader, highlighting the important features of Milton's epic style"--
Paradise Lost, Book 3
Title | Paradise Lost, Book 3 PDF eBook |
Author | John Milton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1915 |
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Sky Above, Earth Below
Title | Sky Above, Earth Below PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Milton |
Publisher | Sentient+ORM |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2006-10-02 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1591811422 |
A renowned spiritual teacher guides you on a sacred passage into the temple of nature in this simple yet profound meditation guide. Since the 1940's, meditation master and vision-quest leader John P. Milton has led over 10,000 vision quests into the wilds of Colorado, the Himalayas, Bali, the Arctic, Mexico, and other powerful sites around the world. Now this pathfinder guides readers back to the wilderness within themselves, to discover how they are connected to the vast and wondrous mystery of nature. In Sky Above, Earth Below, Milton shares his Twelve Principles of Natural Liberation, then walks readers through the practice of relaxation, presence, cultivating universal energy, and more. “Written out of boundless reverence for the Earth and life itself, [Milton] transfers the wisdom of Taoism into simple terms accessible to all readers regardless of personal background” (Midwest Book Review).
Paradise Regained
Title | Paradise Regained PDF eBook |
Author | John Milton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1817 |
Genre | English poetry |
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