The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing BlindnessManchester University Press, 2001 - 279 pagina's This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. |
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Pagina 48
... Milton on English Poetry , R. D. Havens concludes his chapter on ' Milton and the Sonnet ' with the observation : It is safe to say , then , not only that the sonnet was reborn under the influence of Milton and for many years kept ...
... Milton on English Poetry , R. D. Havens concludes his chapter on ' Milton and the Sonnet ' with the observation : It is safe to say , then , not only that the sonnet was reborn under the influence of Milton and for many years kept ...
Pagina 51
... Milton ' for ' Shakespeare ' ; for so closely and carefully does Milton negotiate his relationship with his precursor , there is the perhaps far from accidental impression that he is using the poem as an opportunity to avail himself of ...
... Milton ' for ' Shakespeare ' ; for so closely and carefully does Milton negotiate his relationship with his precursor , there is the perhaps far from accidental impression that he is using the poem as an opportunity to avail himself of ...
Pagina 66
... Milton's language , then this is also a moment when Milton glimpses the lack which is the basis of his creative origins and is outfaced , blinded by his own possible and unbearable sublimity . If this sonnet is one of evasion , it none ...
... Milton's language , then this is also a moment when Milton glimpses the lack which is the basis of his creative origins and is outfaced , blinded by his own possible and unbearable sublimity . If this sonnet is one of evasion , it none ...
Inhoudsopgave
Orpheus Sappho and the feminised | 11 |
Milton and Shelley | 47 |
from Sappho to Satan | 88 |
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