Book chapter
10 ‘Oh my simplicity’: Revising Childhood in Milton's Ludlow Maske
Young Milton
Oxford University Press
11/29/2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698707.003.0010
Abstract
This essay uses Milton's extensive manuscript and print revisions of A Maske to demonstrate that his poetry was radicalizing before it was radical. A Maske exists within a network of collaborative relationships at the same time that its author constructs an image of himself as a singular, inspired author—not autonomous because inspired by God, nor dependent on the assistance and approval of others. This is key to Milton's ethical proof, the struggle for a singular voice within a larger framework. In the revisions to A Maske we see that struggle play out.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 10 ‘Oh my simplicity’: Revising Childhood in Milton's Ludlow Maske
- Creators
- Blaine Greteman
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Young Milton
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698707.003.0010
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/29/2012
- Academic Unit
- English; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984398054002771
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