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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... spirits blent in mutual memories. Silva, our joy is dead. (SG, 400) Even at the end of the poem, as the gypsies load ... spirit of the world, Groaning and travailing with the painful birth Of slow redemption. (SG, 444) The gypsies, like ...
... spirits blent in mutual memories. Silva, our joy is dead. (SG, 400) Even at the end of the poem, as the gypsies load ... spirit of the world, Groaning and travailing with the painful birth Of slow redemption. (SG, 444) The gypsies, like ...
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... spirit of the world , Groaning and travailing with the painful birth Of slow redemption . ( SG , 444 ) Unlike Fedalma's , Dorothea's acts are decidedly “ unhistoric . ” Still , Eliot insists in the last words of her novel , “ the ...
... spirit of the world , Groaning and travailing with the painful birth Of slow redemption . ( SG , 444 ) Unlike Fedalma's , Dorothea's acts are decidedly “ unhistoric . ” Still , Eliot insists in the last words of her novel , “ the ...
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... Spirit of all in Heav'n , ” Uriel cannot detect Satan's hypocrisy , for “ goodness thinks no ill / Where no ill seems ” ( PL 3.691 , 688–89 ) .1 12 Immediately after the allusion to Milton's contemplative angel , which frames her ...
... Spirit of all in Heav'n , ” Uriel cannot detect Satan's hypocrisy , for “ goodness thinks no ill / Where no ill seems ” ( PL 3.691 , 688–89 ) .1 12 Immediately after the allusion to Milton's contemplative angel , which frames her ...
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... lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the pretious life - blood of a master spirit , imbalmed & treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life . ' Tis true , no age can restore a life 18 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton.
... lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the pretious life - blood of a master spirit , imbalmed & treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life . ' Tis true , no age can restore a life 18 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton.
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... spirit ” treasured up in books . To Milton , who is using hyperbole to argue against censorship , not for murder , “ As good almost [ kill ] a man as kill a good book ” ( WN , 100 ) .15 But in creating Bullstrode , Eliot literalizes ...
... spirit ” treasured up in books . To Milton , who is using hyperbole to argue against censorship , not for murder , “ As good almost [ kill ] a man as kill a good book ” ( WN , 100 ) .15 But in creating Bullstrode , Eliot literalizes ...
Contents
27 | |
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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