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Empty Garden : The Subject of Late Milton by Ashraf H. Rushdy (1993, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-100822937190
ISBN-139780822937197
eBay Product ID (ePID)1302295
Product Key Features
Number of Pages536 Pages
Publication NameEmpty Garden : the Subject of Late Milton
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
AuthorAshraf H. Rushdy
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight32 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-009975
ReviewsAshraf H. A. Rushdy has written an ambitious, widely-ranging, and complicated study. . . . The Empty Garden is a learned, challenging, and provocative book. . . . [It] substantially deepens and complicates our understanding of the 1671 volume., It is full of interesting ideas and brimming with enthusiasm. Rushdy makes important claims for John Milton as a political philosopher (comparable with Hobbes) and religious-cultural critic 'of the first order.' . . . Another virtue of Rushdy's study is the close attention the author pays to Milton's words. . . . Certainly it is a stimulating study, even if it stimulates one to disagree. But it would be rewarding to argue with Ashraf Rushdy. I believe that John Milton would agree.", The Empty Garden examines the twin poems of Milton's 1671 volume . . . . It is a brave and ambitious book which sends the patient reader back to school. . . . Rushdy makes a strong case for Milton's defense of ethical individualism as a political position that mattered in the late 17th century in England and continues to matter in the culture wars of our time and place.
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal821/.4
SynopsisThe Empty Garden draws a portrait of Milton as a cultural and religious critic who, in his latest and greatest poems, wrote narratives that illustrate the proper relationships among the individual, the community, and God. Rushdy argues that the political theory implicit in these relationships arises from MiltonÆs own drive for self-knowledge, a kind of knowledge that gives the individual freedom to act in accordance with his or her own understanding of GodÆs will rather than the stateÆs. Rushdy redefines MiltonÆs creative spirit in a way that encompasses his poetic, political, and religious careers., The Empty Garden draws a portrait of Milton as a cultural and religious critic who, in his latest and greatest poems, wrote narratives that illustrate the proper relationship among the individual, the community and God. Rushdy argues that the political theory implicit in these relationships arises from Milton's own drive for self-knowledge, a kind of knowledge that gives the individual freedom to act in accordance with his or her own understanding of God's will rather than the state's. In essence, Rushdy attempts to redefine Milton's creative spirit in a way that fully encompasses his poetic, political and religious careers., The Empty Garden draws a portrait of Milton as a cultural and religious critic who, in his latest and greatest poems, wrote narratives that illustrate the proper relationships among the individual, the community, and God. Rushdy argues that the political theory implicit in these relationships arises from Milton s own drive for self-knowledge, a kind of knowledge that gives the individual freedom to act in accordance with his or her own understanding of God s will rather than the state s. Rushdy redefines Milton s creative spirit in a way that encompasses his poetic, political, and religious careers.
LC Classification NumberPR3588.R86 1992
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