By Michael E, Dr Bryson
ISBN-10: 113824712X
ISBN-13: 9781138247123
ISBN-10: 1409447014
ISBN-13: 9781409447016
Basing his rivalry on various strains of argument, Michael Bryson posits that John Milton-possibly the main recognized 'Christian' poet in English literary history-was, in reality, an atheist.
First, in keeping with his organization with Arian rules (denial of the doctrine of the Trinity), his argument for the de Deo idea of production (which places him in response to the materialism of Spinoza and Hobbes), and his Mortalist argument that the human soul dies with the human physique, Bryson argues that Milton used to be an atheist by means of the widely used definitions of the interval. And moment, because the poet who takes a reader from the presence of an imperious, monarchical God in Paradise misplaced, to the internal-almost Gnostic-conception of God in Paradise Regained, to the absence of any God whatever in Samson Agonistes, Milton strikes from a theist (with God) to anything even more recognizable as a contemporary atheist place (without God) in his poetry.
Among the author's objectives within the Atheist Milton is to account for tensions over the belief of God which, in Bryson's view, pass all of the as far back as Milton's earliest poetry. during this learn, he argues such tensions are imperative to Milton's poetry-and to any try and remember that poetry by itself terms.
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