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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“ Mansus ” was the best of Milton's Latin poems and Walter Savage Landor praised it highly . But our concern here is not with its quality as a poem so much as the degree to which it illuminates Milton's developing technique in the use ...
But another important difference between this concluding vision and that in the early epicedia ( excluding “ Lycidas , " of course ) is the extent to which the whole structure of “ Mansus ” has led toward the scene in which the poet ...
26 But while elegies are commonly panegyric , panegyrics are not necessarily elegiac and especially not , as in “ Mansus , ” when the person praised is still alive , with the traditional topos of the concluding Heavenly vision involving ...
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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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