John-Milton-Paradise-Lost-分析教程文件.pptVIP

Lecture 9 ;Jacobs Ladder ; Paradise Lost takes its place in western literature along with Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aneid《伊尼伊德》, and Dante’s Divine Comedy and in English literature with Beowulf and Spenser’s Fairie Queene. ;1. John Miltons Times; 2.Milton’s Religion 1). Milton believed that each individual Christian should be his own church, without any establishment to encumber him. 2). In his later years, Milton came to view all organized Christian churches, whether Anglican, Catholic or Presbyterian, as an obstacle to true faith. ;3. His revolutionary career ;4. Milton’s