Keith W. F. Stavely. Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1987. xvi + 294pp. $29.95. - Michael Wilding. Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. [viii]+ 280 pp. £25.

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-597
Author(s):  
James G. Turner
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
English Revolution

‘He saw a greater Sun appear’: waiting for the apocalypse in Milton’s Poems 1645

2018 ◽  
pp. 38-78
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Augustine
Keyword(s):  
John Milton ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
English History ◽  
General Application ◽  
English Revolution

Many scholars of Milton’s early verse have discerned in The Poems of Mr John Milton (1645) a prophecy of the English revolution and of the unsung poet’s transformation into the bard of Paradise Lost. This chapter attempts to read the poetry of young Milton within the uncertain horizons of his own lived history. It thus focuses on the problematic of becoming at the heart of Poems 1645. For if notes of apocalyptic and rebirth sound throughout the volume, this chapter nonetheless shows how the staging and re-staging of this theme ultimately folds hoped-for millenarian rupture back into the fabric of secular time. What is argued of the Nativity Ode has general application to Milton’s inaugural collection of verse: despite all that it would confirm about Milton’s genius, the shape of his career, and the direction of English history, the most that it can do is resolve upon an indeterminate waiting.

CHARLES ROLLIN AND UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN AMERICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-355
Author(s):  
MARK W. GRAHAM
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
Universal History ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
The Family

Whoever has travelled in the New England States will remember, in some cool village, the large farmhouse, with its clean-swept grassy yard … In the family “keeping-room,” as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old bookcase, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible, stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.Harriet Beecher Stowe,Uncle Tom's Cabin(Boston, MA, 1852), 226

Puritan Legacies: "Paradise Lost" and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890.

1988 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 660
Author(s):  
K. P. Van Anglen ◽  
Keith W. F. Stavely
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Paradise Lost
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