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Martz, Louis Lohr was born on September 27, 1913 in Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaiah Louis Bower and Ruth Alverna (Lohr) Martz.
( Distinguished critic and scholar Louis L. Martz refresh...)
Distinguished critic and scholar Louis L. Martz refreshingly addresses some of the central concerns in current studies of English poetry from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, exploring the context of religious controversy within which this poetry developed and the relationship of poetry to the visual arts.
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This full and definitive treatment of the whole body of Milton's poetry, written by one of the country's most eminent Milton scholars, was originally published under the title Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry. With a new title and an introduction developing the theme of exile, it is now issued in paperback for the first time. The most important single study of Milton that has appeared in years . For a long time to come, it will be the book from which Milton’s oeuvre is reviewed and from which Milton criticism seeks renewal.” Joseph Wittreich, Modern Language Quarterly Martz’s pleasure in reading Milton is evident and he conveys that pleasure in his pages . All of us will want to ponder and can expect to profit from a commentary on the text carried on with the educated understanding, tact, skill, and perceptiveness that are everywhere present in this book.” B. Rajan, Modern Philology A work that is both rich and rewarding . The background that Martz brings to his subject illuminates Milton’s poetry in fresh and exciting ways.” Michael Lieb, Cithara The strength of Martz’s criticism arises from his style as well as his learning and good sense. Observations are made in a manner which both clears the mind and arouses the imagination. Commonplace facts, acknowledged but ignored, suddenly take on fresh significance, while the results of scholarly research are introduced with easy grace and relevance. No one writing of Milton today has a sharper eye for the illuminating detail.” Hugh Maccallum, University of Toronto Quarterly Martz’s sensitive, percipient comments on the interplay of styles in Milton’s poems provide some overarching unity to these diverse essays.” Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Journal of English and Germanic Philology The best major study of Milton’s whole poetic career in almost half a century.” Arnold Stein
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Milton: Poet of Exile, Second Edition MILTON: POET OF EXILE, SECOND EDITION BY Martz, Louis L. ( Author ) Sep-10-1986 MILTON: POET OF EXILE, SECOND EDITION MILTON: POET OF EXILE, SECOND EDITION BY MARTZ, LOUIS L. ( AUTHOR ) SEP-10-1986 By Martz, Louis L. ( Author )Sep-10-1986 Paperback
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( In Many Gods and Many Voices distinguished scholar Loui...)
In Many Gods and Many Voices distinguished scholar Louis L. Martz addresses works by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and D. H. Lawrence, with brief treatment of the relation of Pound's Cantos to Joyce's Ulysses. In a graceful, lucid style, Martz argues that a prophetic tradition is represented in the Cantos, The Waste Land, Paterson, and H. D.'s Trilogy and Helen in Egypt, along with Lawrence's Plumed Serpent and the second version of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Pound's often- cited view that an epic is a poem that "includes history" does not define epic alone, for the books of biblical prophecy also contain history: the history of Israel's misdeeds and continuous redemption. On the other hand, Martz suggests that the term prophecy should not be limited to works that foretell the future, arguing that the biblical prophet is concerned primarily with the present. The prophet is a reformer, a denouncer of evil, as well as a seer of possible redemption. He hears "voices" and transmits the message of those voices to his people, in the hope of moving them away from wickedness and toward the ways of truth. According to Martz, such was the mission that inspired Walt Whitman and that Whitman passed on to Pound, Eliot, Williams, and Lawrence. (H. D. found her own sources of inspiration in Greek and Egyptian lore.) Martz's premise is that biblical prophecy, with its mingling of poetry and prose, its abrupt shifts from violent denunciation to exalted poetry, provides a precedent for the texture of these modernist works that will help readers to appreciate the mingling of "voices" and the complex mixture of elements. Examining their interrelationships and their common themes, Many Gods and Many Voices offers fresh insights into these modern writers.
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POET OF EXILE: A Study of Milton's Poetry by Lous L. Martz (1980 Hardcover in dust jacket, 355 pages. Yale University Press.)
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(This book analyzes and studies More's writings as well as...)
This book analyzes and studies More's writings as well as Holbein's portraits of More and his family. Louis Martz argues that there is no foundation for reviving the ancient charge that More was a bloody persecutor of heretics, and he questions the view put forth that More suffered from an "inner fury" resulting from sexual repression and a frustrated desire to be a monk. According to Mastz, More's furious attacks against heresy in his polemical writings do not reveal his deep inner self, but are treatises done in the common style of controversy in an era of savage religious disagreements. More's polemics are uncommon only in their wit and sardonic cleverness, says Martz, and they are matched by those of Martin Luther, his only peer in this kind of vitriolic attack. Martz makes his case primarily through exploration of More's mode of writing: the Augustinian "order of the heart" displayed in some of his major works - the "Confutation of Tyndale's Answer", and "Apology", the English treatise on the Passion, the "Dialogue of Comfort", and his last work, the "De Tristitia", his meditation on the agony of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Martz, Louis Lohr was born on September 27, 1913 in Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaiah Louis Bower and Ruth Alverna (Lohr) Martz.
AB, Lafayette College, 1935. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Lafayette College, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1939.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), De Pauw University, 1983. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Siena College, 1984.
Instructor English, Yale University, 1938-1944; assistant professor, Yale University, 1944-1948; associate professor, Yale University, 1948-1954; professor, Yale University, 1954-1957; Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English and American literature, Yale University, 1957-1971; Sterling Professor of English, Yale University, 1971-1984; professor emeritus, Yale University, since 1984; department chairman, Yale University, 1956-1962, 64-65; director division humanities, Yale University, 1959-1962, 80; director Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library., Yale University, 1972-1977; acting master Saybrook College, Yale University, 1978-1979; chairman college seminar program, Yale University, 1968-1971; acting director Center British Art, Yale University, 1981; visiting Professor of English, Georgetown University, 1985-1991. Visiting Professor of English Emory University, 1986-1988.
( This full and definitive treatment of the whole body of...)
(This book analyzes and studies More's writings as well as...)
(Milton: Poet of Exile, Second Edition MILTON: POET OF EXI...)
( In Many Gods and Many Voices distinguished scholar Loui...)
(POET OF EXILE: A Study of Milton's Poetry by Lous L. Mart...)
( Distinguished critic and scholar Louis L. Martz refresh...)
(1963--an anthology of 17th century verse)
Member American Academy Arts and Science, Amici Thomae Mori, Renaissance Society of America, British Academy, Elizabethan Club, Yale Club (New York City), Athenaeum Club (London), Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Rho.
Married Edwine Montague, June 30, 1941 (deceased 1985). Children: Frederick, Louis, Ruth Anne. Married Barbara Stuart, May 5, 1990.
Children: Olivia, Andrew.