George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton"In George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton's poetry, prose, and the well-known legends of his life - transposing, reframing, regendering, and thus testing both the stories told about Milton and the stories Milton told."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Evil be thou my good,' is [sic] by no means peculiar to the Monarch of iniquity—it is shared in various degrees by all his subjects” (GEL, 1:43). Such letters clearly reveal the imprint of Milton's poetry in the sediment of young Mary ...
... Evil be thou my good,' is [sic] by no means peculiar to the Monarch of iniquity—it is shared in various degrees by all his subjects” (GEL, 1:43). Such letters clearly reveal the imprint of Milton's poetry in the sediment of young Mary ...
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... Evil be thou my Good ; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'n's King I hold By thee , and more than half perhaps will reign . ( PL 4.110–12 ) As Silva characterizes Father Isidor's demand for obedience as “ tyranny ” ( SG , 322 ) ...
... Evil be thou my Good ; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'n's King I hold By thee , and more than half perhaps will reign . ( PL 4.110–12 ) As Silva characterizes Father Isidor's demand for obedience as “ tyranny ” ( SG , 322 ) ...
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... Evil be thou my good. (PL 4.73–82, 108–10) To represent Silva's realization that he cannot erase his identity as a Chris- tian knight of Spain, Eliot gives him a Satanic soliloquy. Arguing “with his many-voiced self ” (SG, 409), Silva ...
... Evil be thou my good. (PL 4.73–82, 108–10) To represent Silva's realization that he cannot erase his identity as a Chris- tian knight of Spain, Eliot gives him a Satanic soliloquy. Arguing “with his many-voiced self ” (SG, 409), Silva ...
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... evil , and by small Accomplishing great things , by things deem'd weak Subverting worldly strong , and worldly wise By simply meek . ( PL 12.565–69 ) Thus Eliot ends her novel of epic scope by echoing the poet to whom she returned with ...
... evil , and by small Accomplishing great things , by things deem'd weak Subverting worldly strong , and worldly wise By simply meek . ( PL 12.565–69 ) Thus Eliot ends her novel of epic scope by echoing the poet to whom she returned with ...
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... evil sorcerer Comus, he was all the while plotting with Italian Jesuits to convert Lord Egerton to the Catholic cause. Now, Digby has reappeared in Rome and is using the beautiful Leonora as the siren to convert Milton, the potential ...
... evil sorcerer Comus, he was all the while plotting with Italian Jesuits to convert Lord Egerton to the Catholic cause. Now, Digby has reappeared in Rome and is using the beautiful Leonora as the siren to convert Milton, the potential ...
Contents
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Milton and Romolas Fathers | 66 |
Milton and Dorotheas Husbands | 83 |
Testing the Ways of Milton in Middlemarch | 111 |
Eliots Challenge to Milton in Adam Bede | 135 |
The Freedom of My Mind | 166 |
A Wider Vision | 189 |
Great Benefactors of Mankind Deliverers | 216 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Bibliography | 261 |
Index | 275 |
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