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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... nature set From centre to circumference , whereon In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to God . ( 5.508-12 ) Homer , Iliad 8.19 , and Plato , Theaetetus 153c , are the primary sources of the idea here , but its ...
... nature set From centre to circumference , whereon In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to God . ( 5.508-12 ) Homer , Iliad 8.19 , and Plato , Theaetetus 153c , are the primary sources of the idea here , but its ...
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... nature of poetry ( 36–103 ) ; finally he in- vokes their aid for the singing of the rest of the Theogony . This is virtually the only extended passage in classical poetry of which the Muses are the principal subject.8 Moreover , Hesiod ...
... nature of poetry ( 36–103 ) ; finally he in- vokes their aid for the singing of the rest of the Theogony . This is virtually the only extended passage in classical poetry of which the Muses are the principal subject.8 Moreover , Hesiod ...
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William Malin Porter. the sky lies vaguely behind Milton's reference to Nature at 9.782 and contributes more directly to 9.1002–3 ( after Adam's fall ) , " Sky loured , and muttering thunder , some sad drops / Wept . " Milton's " gave ...
William Malin Porter. the sky lies vaguely behind Milton's reference to Nature at 9.782 and contributes more directly to 9.1002–3 ( after Adam's fall ) , " Sky loured , and muttering thunder , some sad drops / Wept . " Milton's " gave ...
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Allusion | 13 |
Lesser Forms of Literary | 21 |
The Critical Allusion | 32 |
Copyright | |
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