文档介绍：On His Blindness
John Milton
Milton! Thou shouldest be living at this hour: England hath need of thee.
---- W. Wordsworth
Understanding Milton
Milton the puritan
Milton the republican revolutionist:
Milton “ the son of Renaissance”
Milton’s Points of View
1. Politically,
Milton championed liberty and fought against authority throughout his career.
He believed that power corrupts human beings and distrusted anyone who could claim power over anyone else. He believed in a strict social and political hierarchy in which people would obey their leaders and the leaders would serve their people.
2. Religiously,
Milton advocated plete abolishment of all church establishments.
He believed that each individual Christian should be his own church, unencumbered by an establishment.
He felt that the conscience of the individual was a more powerful tool than the church in interpreting the Word of God.
3. Milton's views on marriage
In his Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, he argues that the main purpose of marriage is not necessarily procreation, but the joining of two people into one unified being.
He felt that conversation and panionship were supremely important in a marriage.
His writings
John Milton’s work is marked by cosmic themes and lofty religious idealism; it reveals an astonishing breadth of learning mand of the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew classics. His blank verse is of remarkable variety and richness, so skillfully modulated and flexible that it has pared an tones.
Milton’s career as a writer may be divided into three periods.
A. Early poems
B. Prose and pamphlets
C. Epics and s