밀턴의 1645년 시집 = A Study of Milton`s Poems of 1645

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As Milton lived through and responded to the most politically and religiously convulsive period in the Britain's entire history, he will not be fully understood if we try to approach him on our own preconceptions. By 1645 he had a considerable reputation as a social controversalist. But he won relatively little fame as a poet, though this had been his one constant ambition. In this respect the publication of Poems (1645) by a man with such a nigh political and social career in such a year - the year of the battle of Naseby where Fairfax and Cromwell defeated the King's forces - cannot have been without political intent or significance.
So we can consider this collection both as a poetic autobiography of a man who wants to practice poetry as a public duty and conscience of the age, and as a manifesto which lays claim to a historical and providential authority in the commonwealth.