With Wandering Steps: Generative Ambiguity in Milton’s Poetics

November 2016 | cloth | ISBN 978-0-8207-0488-3 Explores Milton’s creative power to create a desire for a unified resolution that we are never meant to actually reach — at least in this world Note: This book is currently out of print, however a reprint may be possible for faculty/class adoptions, subject to minimum quantities. Please contact our print and fulfillment partner XanEdu Custom Publishing for more information: (800) 218-5971 ext. 8000. Book Information: Throughout his poetry, as he explored how human beings could and should align their wills with God’s, John Milton grappled with this reality: as we travel through this life, our paths fork and choices are made, and thus the eventual integration into the divine “all in all” described in Paradise Lost is always delayed or projected forward. In this relationship, Milton sees a generative tension between certainties — such as the premise that God exists and is good — and contingencies, those acts and experiences that are generate