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It's quite paradoxical that John Milton - who hostile youngster baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and authorized of polygamy - will be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. but smooth scholarship has usually understated or defined away his heretical evaluations. This quantity investigates elements of Milton's works inconsistent with traditional ideals, no matter if when it comes to seventeenth-century theology or the typical assumptions of Milton students.

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Edmund Spenser's leading edge poetic works have a crucial position within the canon of English literature. but he's remembered as a morally improper, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of eire; in Karl Marx's phrases, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'— a guy at the make who aspired to be at courtroom and who used to be ready to take advantage of the Irish to get what he sought after.

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Following his irreverent Oulipian transforming of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new e-book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, transferring the motion from the 12th century to the current day and moving it to the trendy walled urban' of the college of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon turns into the river Colne; his popes are changed via vice-chancellors and schooling ministers; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined because the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's domestic urban.

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In his oddly prophetic overview of Vona Groarke's Shale in Poetry eire evaluation, Anthony Roche preferred 'a strikingly person sensibility wealthy adequate to inhabit 100 empty rooms'. Her moment assortment makes use of just like the home — and homes themselves —as the environment for the enactment of specific lives.