1st Edition

Milton's Loves From Amity to Caritas in the Paradise Epics

232 Pages

by Routledge

232 Pages

by Routledge

232 Pages

by Routledge

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This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained : sanctioned loves and outlawed loves, sincere loves and false loves, Christian loves, classical loves, humanist loves, and love as emotion. In showing how these loves motivate the most significant actions of the Paradise epics, it reveals Milton to have made creative use of the tensions between philosophical... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Critical Loves

2 The Loves of an Educated Man

3 Love and Emotion

4 Love and Conflict

5 An Unlikely Couple

6 ‘Milton’s Bogey’

7 Milton’s Epic Loves

1 Lessons in Love: Raphael and Adam

1.1 Virtuous and Obedient Love

1.2 Loving Things

1.3 Ascending and Descending Ladders

1.4 ‘The Affable Arch-Angel’

2 Falling in Love: Adam and Eve

2.1 The Terms of Marriage

2.2 Separation

2.3 The Theory and Practice of Love

3 Strange Love: God the Father

3.1 Fatherly Distance

3.2 Princely Companionship

3.3 Creating an Equal

3.4 ‘All in All’

4 The Anti-Friend: Satan

4.1 False Friendship

4.2 Companions of Woe

4.3 The Temptation of Friendship

4.4 Satan’s Solitude

5 Suspended in Love: The Son