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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... imagines how the dire hours Burthened with destiny—the death of hopes Darkening long generations, . . . ... sweep along In their aërial ocean measureless Myriads of little joys, that ripen sweet And soothe the sorrowful spirit of the ...
... imagines how the dire hours Burthened with destiny—the death of hopes Darkening long generations, . . . ... sweep along In their aërial ocean measureless Myriads of little joys, that ripen sweet And soothe the sorrowful spirit of the ...
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... imagines a strategy for deceiving and defying Father Isidor : Ay , secrecy , and disobedience — these No tyranny can master . Disobey ! You may divide the universe with God , Keeping your will unbent , and hold a world Where He is not ...
... imagines a strategy for deceiving and defying Father Isidor : Ay , secrecy , and disobedience — these No tyranny can master . Disobey ! You may divide the universe with God , Keeping your will unbent , and hold a world Where He is not ...
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... how deluded Dorothea is about Casaubon's scholarly abilities , he imagines her as , like Uriel , an " angel beguiled " ( cf. Mm , 202-3 and PL 3.689-90 ) . Uriel , Rigg contemplates his newly inherited property , not Introduction 17.
... how deluded Dorothea is about Casaubon's scholarly abilities , he imagines her as , like Uriel , an " angel beguiled " ( cf. Mm , 202-3 and PL 3.689-90 ) . Uriel , Rigg contemplates his newly inherited property , not Introduction 17.
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... imagines his grandfather speaking “ with him in those written memo- rials which , says Milton , ' contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul [ was ] whose progeny they are ' ” ( DD , 670 ) . 14. The following was ...
... imagines his grandfather speaking “ with him in those written memo- rials which , says Milton , ' contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul [ was ] whose progeny they are ' ” ( DD , 670 ) . 14. The following was ...
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... imagine a vast discursive space of writing. To Milton, books preserve the lives of master spirits be- yond life so that the dialogue among them need never cease. To Eliot, the world is a huge whispering gallery in which an engraved ...
... imagine a vast discursive space of writing. To Milton, books preserve the lives of master spirits be- yond life so that the dialogue among them need never cease. To Eliot, the world is a huge whispering gallery in which an engraved ...
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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