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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In simple terms , the difference lies in the fact that he was a better poet in 1637 than he had been in 1626 , and there are unmistakable signs of this difference . In “ Elegia Tertia , ” Milton uses the epicedion as a mode of statement ...
And the fact that Lawes was the Attendant Spirit is much more relevant to Comus than , for example , the fact that it was Richard Burbage who entered as Hamlet in the second scene of Shakespeare's play . Since the music for Comus was ...
But Milton's use of the pastoral tradition in “ Lycidas ” —in fact in all three poems — has a relation to the structural aspects of the later poems and illuminates the direction that his poetic development was taking .
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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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