Reading the Classics and Paradise LostUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1993 - 222 pagina's Milton’s early commentators—Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others—not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere “background.” As a consequence, William M. Porter argues, not only is the foundational dimension of Milton’s poetry now hardly visible, even to scholars, but the potential of Milton’s poetry to revitalize the reading of the classics has been diminished. In this insightful study, Porter attempts once again to read both the classics and Milton’s epic poem sensitively and intelligently. He exposes the recklessly speculative and tendentious character of much earlier work on Milton’s allusions, in which allusions were promiscuously posited and in which Paradise Lost was too often regarded naively as triumphing over the classics. Porter demonstrates that Milton’s allusions, in which allusions to the classics, while fewer than has been supposed, are rich with wit, irony, and thought that can be grasped only by a reader with a double perspective. |
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Pagina 19
... death , but book 4 ( lines 499–511 ) . Moreover , the source of the story as Vergil imitates it , here and again elsewhere ( Aeneid 2.403-4 . , 6.840 ) , is not the Odyssey at all but Euripides ' Troades 77-78 ( see also Ovid , Metamor ...
... death , but book 4 ( lines 499–511 ) . Moreover , the source of the story as Vergil imitates it , here and again elsewhere ( Aeneid 2.403-4 . , 6.840 ) , is not the Odyssey at all but Euripides ' Troades 77-78 ( see also Ovid , Metamor ...
Pagina 73
... Calliope's defense . No poet in antiquity regards Orpheus ' death as evidence of Calliope's impotence.36 And Horace is not the only poet whose experience testifies to the Muses ' protection of their devotees Descende caelo : Thought 73.
... Calliope's defense . No poet in antiquity regards Orpheus ' death as evidence of Calliope's impotence.36 And Horace is not the only poet whose experience testifies to the Muses ' protection of their devotees Descende caelo : Thought 73.
Pagina 97
... death " from the sea . " Odysseus and his mariners return to Circe's island in book 12 , and there he learns from the witch herself the route and distance of his trip , in a long and detailed speech ( 12.37-141 ) . Moreover , her speech ...
... death " from the sea . " Odysseus and his mariners return to Circe's island in book 12 , and there he learns from the witch herself the route and distance of his trip , in a long and detailed speech ( 12.37-141 ) . Moreover , her speech ...
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Allusion | 13 |
Lesser Forms of Literary | 21 |
The Critical Allusion | 32 |
Copyright | |
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