Structure in Milton's Poetry: from the Foundation to the PinnaclesMilton's skill in constructing poems whose structure is determined, not by rule or precedent, but by the thought to be expressed, is one of his chief accomplishments as a creative artist. Professor Condee analyzes seventeen of Milton's poems, both early and late, well and badly organized, in order to trace the poet's developing ability to create increasingly complex poetic structures. Three aspects of Milton's use of poetic structure are stressed: the relation of the parts to the whole and parts to parts, his ability to unite actual events with the poetic situation, and his use and variation of literary tradition to establish the desired structural unity. |
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Dr. Johnson brushed aside as " indecent " Dryden's comment that Satan triumphs and thus is , like Aeneas , an epic hero . Indeed , Satan is not the victor and Adam is not “ foiled , ” but departs in a state of enlightenment which defies ...
( X. 466-72 ) Aeneas and Odysseus might well have spoken with these accents , and with far smaller achievements to point to . It would not be true , however , to say that only Satan , of all the figures in Paradise Lost , resembles ...
Achilles and Aeneas . But Paradise Regained explicitly rejects warfare entirely , much as it renounces other elements which mark the traditional epic . Christ the epic hero vanquishes Satan the epic enemy “ by wisdom ” ( 1. 175 ) .
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Miltons Poetical Architecture | 1 |
The Early Latin Poems and Lycidas | 21 |
The Fair Infant Elegia Quinta | 43 |
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