Milton Unbound
Subtitle: Controversy and Reinterpretation
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521032209
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Milton, John, --1608-1674--Criticism and inte; Milton, John,--1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation--History
First sentence: In 1961, William Empson in the controversial Milton's God challenged what he called the growing "neo-Christian" bias of scholars, blaming it for overstatement of Milton's orthodoxy and understatement of the sincerity of his epic theodicy.