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 72
... earlier in Lycidas . This nega- tive exemplum would seem to put the lie to Horace's confident claim to the Muse's patronage , for the rejected , impotent Muse here is Horace's " regina ... Calliope " ( 3.4.2 ) , displaced from the ...
... earlier in Lycidas . This nega- tive exemplum would seem to put the lie to Horace's confident claim to the Muse's patronage , for the rejected , impotent Muse here is Horace's " regina ... Calliope " ( 3.4.2 ) , displaced from the ...
Pagina 99
... earlier visit . Finally they come to the Elysian fields ( 637 ) , where Aeneas has his interview with Anchises , which occupies most of the rest of the book ( through 892 ) . This sec- tion is almost exactly the same length as the first ...
... earlier visit . Finally they come to the Elysian fields ( 637 ) , where Aeneas has his interview with Anchises , which occupies most of the rest of the book ( through 892 ) . This sec- tion is almost exactly the same length as the first ...
Pagina 132
... earlier language . In fact , the later master is motivated to undertake epic precisely by the recognition that the terms of the earlier authoritative poem are no longer adequate to the poet's experience . The Romans were the first to ...
... earlier language . In fact , the later master is motivated to undertake epic precisely by the recognition that the terms of the earlier authoritative poem are no longer adequate to the poet's experience . The Romans were the first to ...
Inhoudsopgave
Allusion | 13 |
Lesser Forms of Literary | 21 |
The Critical Allusion | 32 |
Copyright | |
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