Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part I. Milton’s Visionary Mode: Prophecy and Violence 1 • Milton and the Visionary Mode: The Early Poems 3 John T. Shawcross 2 • Milton and the Culture Wars 23 Barbara K. Lewalski 3 • Red Milton: Abraham Polonsky and You Are There (January 30, 1955) 45 Sharon Achinstein Part II: Milton’s Visionary Mode: Contemporary and Later Contexts 4 • How Hobbes Works 65 Stanley Fish 5 • God’s “Red Right Hand”: Violence and Pain in Paradise Lost 89 Diana Treviño Benet 6 • A World with a Tomorrow: Paradise Regain’d and Its Hermeneutic of Discovery 109 Joseph A. Wittreich 7 • “Shifting Contexts”: Artists’ Agon with the Biblical and Miltonic Samson 137 Wendy Furman-Adams and Virginia James Tufte Part III. Milton’s Visionary Mode and Paradise Regain’d 8 • Why Is the Virgin Mary in Paradise Regain’d? 193 Mary Beth Rose 9 • Charles, Christ, and Icon of Kingship in Paradise Regain’d 215 Stella P. Revard 10 • From Last Things to First: The Apophatic Vision of Paradise Regain’d 241 Michael Bryson Part IV. Milton’s Visionary Mode and the Last Poems 11 • From Politics to Faith in the Great Poems? 269 David Loewenstein Notes 287 Selected Publications by Michael Lieb 327 About the Contributors 333 Index 337 viii Contents ...