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Poetic Form in Blake's MILTON
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Poetic Form in Blake's MILTON

Blake's two finished epics have been widely regarded as combinations of brilliant set pieces which yield to no systematic rhetorical criticism. Susan Fox contests this view, discovering in Milton an elaborate verbal structure that is fully congruent with the poem's philosophy. She has made the first full exposition of the formal principles of a late Blake poem, and it suggests that the late prophecies are as profound in their artistic structures as they are in their thematic ones. The author begins by tracing throughout Blake's poetry the development of the techniques found in Milton. She then provides an analysis in two chapters organized, as she perceives the poem to be, in parallel three-...

Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

"Image of that Horror"

This innovative book draws attention with force and clarity to the prophetic center and apocalyptic framework of King Lear. Image of that Horror demonstrates how Shakespeare mined scripture for analogies that pluralize the play's meanings and universalize its significance. In exploring the play's literary and cultural relations, this book addresses the larger questions of King Lear's sources, its genre, and its Christian character.

The Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: DS Brewer

Ambiguity, present in all aspects of the poem, is seen as central to Milton's authorial intentions. Shawcross proposes that the many ambiguities surrounding Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes are intentional: the actual words, the dates of composition, the genre, and the characters - particularly Samson and Dalila but including Manoa, Harapha, and the Chorus. Ambiguity also lies in Milton's presentation of political issues both philosophical and practical, his treatment of gender concepts, the constant questioning of the reader, and the poem's effect. Discussing all these elements, Shawcross follows with a detailed reading of the text which argues that it remains purposefully ambiguous, reflecting Milton's own recognition of the uncertainty of the content, and suggesting that Milton himself would question some of the nice 'solutions' that modern scholarship has offered in the last two decades. JOHN SHAWCROSS is Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Kentucky.

Spirits of Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Spirits of Fire

This work is a compilation of twelve essays on romantic literature by practitioners of a resurgent historical criticism sharing the common assumption that no aspect of the object of literary study escapes the conditioning power of historical change.

The New Milton Criticism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

The New Milton Criticism

A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton's work.

Uncircumscribed Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Uncircumscribed Mind

Includes sixteen essays that represent how challenging, stimulating, and far-ranging are the efforts to read Milton critically and deeply. This collection deals with the issue of evil, world of Milton's masque and the many worlds of his epic Paradise Lost.

Global Milton and Visual Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Global Milton and Visual Art

Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary relations. The fifteen purposefully-brief chapters, 103 illustrations, and 64 supplemental web-images reflect the great richness of the topics and the diverse experiences and expertise of the contributors...

The Apocalypse in English renaissance thought and literature: patterns, antecedents and repercussions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 24
The Moment of Explosion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Moment of Explosion

William Blake thought that John Milton had been betrayed by both his commentators and his illustrators, and he set out to recover Milton's vision, particularly in Paradise Lost, from the misguided academic and Augustan misinterpretation to which it had been subjected. The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton is the first detailed. analysis of all of Blake's illustrations for Milton's poetry. Blake explicitly believed he was correcting errors that Milton wanted corrected, and he felt that his illustration was interpretive criticism in its highest sense, a re-vision that would broadcast Milton's revolutionary ethic afresh. Stephen C. Behrendt blends a close reading of Blak...