The Countenance Divine & 'nothing more important than trifles': critical reflections on The Countenance Divine by Hughes, Michael Edward

“…In 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes his epic Paradise Lost amid a/ever of prophetic speculation: is this the year God will finally deliver a terrible judgement on London? …”
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Tyrants and Tyrannicide in Mid-seventeenth Century England : a Woman’s Perspective ? by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

“…In the wake of the execution of Charles I, a few Englishwomen either denounced (like John Milton) the tyrant or condemned the tyrannicide. …”
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“Thou Resemblest Now thy Sin”: Milton’s Spiritual-Aesthetic Translation by Oscar Delgado Chinchilla

“…In his production of Paradise Lost, John Milton finds himself forced to express in words the physical qualities of objects that have no actual tangible form. …”
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“Securus est quem civium servat fidem” – “he whom the citizens’ loyalty preserves is safe” (Baptistes, scene viii, l. 1213): The People, the King and the Tyrant in George Buchanan’... by Carine Ferradou

“…George Buchanan was a major source of inspiration for John Milton. His tragedy Baptistes sive Calumnia (1577), written in Latin, offers an insight into Buchanan’s political theory such as expounded in his famous dialogue De Iure regni apud Scotos, namely his view of a limited monarchy, a theory which in many ways has a revolutionary potential.…”
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A Brief History of Modesty by Abigail Williams

“…The word modest is used widely throughout this period, and this article draws on textual examples from Jonathan Swift, John Milton, Sarah Fielding, and Alexander Pope to show the role the term played in the conception of political rhetoric, sexual propriety, social and dramatic performance. …”
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Reformation Leads to Self-Reliance: The Protestantism of Transcendentalism by Rachel B. Griffis

“…The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles to develop the literary tradition. …”
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Intervenções do texto bíblico no romance Tempo de Solidão, de Josué Guimarães = Interventions of biblical narrative in Josué Guimarães’ novel Tempo de Solidão by Enéias Farias Tavares

“…Essa influência do texto bíblico se dá tanto em autores “modernos”, como Franz Kafka, Herman Melville e José Saramago, quanto em autores clássicos, como Dante Alighieri, John Milton e Luiz de Camões. Este trabalho apresenta uma interpretação sobre o nome do personagem Daniel Abraão, baseada na cultura bíblica judaica. …”
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Freedom of the Press – two concepts by Markus Meckl

“…In 1644 the debate for freedom of expression started in modern times thanks to John Milton’s Areopagitica, where he still argued about God in order to justify his quest for freedom. …”
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MILTON’S PARADISE LOST AND A POSTCOLONIAL FALL by LUIZ FERNANDO FERREIRA DE SÁ

“…In John Milton’s Paradise Lost epic and empire are dissociated. …”
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TRADITION REVISITED: T. S. ELIOT AND THE JOHN DONNE AFFAIR by André Cechinel

“…Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets,” published in 1921, this paper discusses how the poet shifts the positions occupied by John Milton and John Donne in the English literary canon through an argument that defends the connection between “individual talent” and literary tradition. …”
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TWO APPROACHES TO DOIS IRMÃOS: SOCIOLINGUISTIC DISTANCE AND LITERARY TRANSLATION STRATEGIES by Davi Silva Gonçalves, William Franklin Hanes

“…Using key chapters from Milton Hatoum’s Dois Irmãos (2000), we set about testing John Milton’s hypothesis (2011) that grammatically more similar languages would yield fewer adaptations in translation. …”
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Gayatri Spivak leitora de Paradise Lost: um texto transdisciplinar by Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá

“…Em Paradise Lost, de John Milton, épico e império se encontram dissociados. …”
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In the postmodern mirror: intertextuality in Angels and Insects by Antonia Susan Byatt by Buda Agata

“…Moreover, the writer moves towards literary criticism, discussing poems by famous artists, such as Alfred Tennyson or John Milton. In this way, the novel by Byatt is also an example of metafiction. …”
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The Tuscan Artist - Images of Galileo in Milton’s works by Toscano Fabio

“…In The Areopagitica, his most important work of prose, John Milton mentions Galileo as the illustrious martyr who fought for the freedom of thought. …”
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“The Presence of a Monstrosity”: Eugenics, Female Disability, and Obstetrical-Gynecologic Medicine in Late 19th-Century New York by Lauren MacIvor Thompson

“…The essay concludes that while medical authority was not absolute, the records of John Milton Mabbott reveal a transition point in the history of American medicine, where scientific medicine and the emergence of theories of inheritance, like eugenics, helped to legitimize physicians’ expert opinion.…”
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Paradise Lost: The Urgent Summons of Laudato Si’ to the American People at This Moment in our History by Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy

“…McElroy uses _Laudato Si_’ and the poem “Paradise Lost” by John Milton to suggest that the present ecological crisis is due to humans’ estrangement from God, nature, truth, and one another. …”
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La información como servicio público en los medios de comunicación by Carmen Marta-Lazo, José Antonio Gabelas Barroso, Alejandro Silva Faci

“… La primera aparición de la expresión libertad de prensa, denominada “libertad de palabra” aparece en la obra “El paraíso perdido” de John Milton (1667). En el ámbito legislativo, la primera vez que se incluye esta libertad es en la Declaración de Derechos de Virginia, en 1776: “La libertad de prensa es uno de los grandes baluartes de la libertad y no puede ser restringido sino por un gobierno despótico”. …”
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The Visions of Orpheus in Milton's Lycidas by Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá

“…As alusões ao mito de Orfeu em “Lycidas”de John Milton serão analisadas pela perspectiva de um signo relacional. …”
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Prophetic Gestures: How Blake drew his Virgil by Joan Curbet

“…The article attempts to offer a reading of Blake´s version of the Mantuan poet based on the notions of prophecy that he had developed between 1804 and 1820, in his illustrations for the works of John Milton and in the illuminated poem Jerusalem, which must be considered his final and most decisive statement on the subject. …”
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Expressive Individualism, the Cult of the Artist as Genius, and Milton’s Lucifer by Patrick Madigan

“…I then trace it one step further, somewhat surprisingly, to the altered depiction of Lucifer John Milton gives in his poem Paradise Lost. Milton’s Lucifer rejects not only Jesus as the highest creature, he rejects the Father as father; he announces ‘I know none before me; I am self-begot.’ …”
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