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Cargando... Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton (edición 2021)por Joe Moshenska (Autor)
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An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution--intimidating rather than inspiring. In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound his monumental image. Immersing ourselves in the rhythms and textures of Milton's world, we move from the music of his childhood home to his encounter with Galileo in Florence into his idiosyncratic belief system and his strange, electrifying imagination. Making Darkness Light will change the way we think about Milton, the place of his writings in his life, and his life in history. It is also a book about Milton's place in our times: about our relationship with the Western canon, about why and how we read, and about what happens when we let someone else's ideas inflect our own. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I haven’t read his work since then, but for revisiting On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity every year. It was time to revisit Milton.
Joe Moshenska’s Making Darkness Light is more than a study of Milton’s life, time, and work. It is a personal exploration of the poet, the author’s struggle to understand why he has been obsessed with Milton for years. Moshenska traveled across London and Europe, following Milton’s trail, imagining how the places and people he met impacted his work. I have read several books like this recently, biographies that are personal, the authors writing about visiting where their subjects lived and traveled. It is a refreshing approach that I enjoy. As Moshenska demonstrates how Milton comes alive for him, he illuminates this complex man and poet for us.
Milton was a Nonconformist thinker, a Christian, and a man who supported republicanism and the murder of Charles I. He was a man who married unwisely and supported divorce, then married two more times. He was a scholar of great breadth, determined to become a poet by writing epic poems. He became blind and blamed his diet, and he met Galileo and was familiar with cutting edge scientific discoveries. He was anti-Catholic but made friends across Italy during his travels.
This is not an easy book, it requires attention and work, at least for someone like myself, whose scholarly days ended forty-three years ago. But I kept on, for it is a beautiful book, complex and rich.
I received a free egalley from the publisher through NetGalley. My review is fair and unbiased. ( )