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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... are apposite : How well could I have spared for thee , young swain , Enow of such as for their bellies ' sake , Creep and intrude , and climb into the fold ? Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold 50 Descende caelo : ...
... are apposite : How well could I have spared for thee , young swain , Enow of such as for their bellies ' sake , Creep and intrude , and climb into the fold ? Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold 50 Descende caelo : ...
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... thee im- plores " ( 7.38 ) ; but these are undercut finally by the prologue to book 9 , which is not an invocation at all and in which he tells how his Celestial Patroness " deigns / Her nightly visitation un- implored " ( 9.21-22 ) ...
... thee im- plores " ( 7.38 ) ; but these are undercut finally by the prologue to book 9 , which is not an invocation at all and in which he tells how his Celestial Patroness " deigns / Her nightly visitation un- implored " ( 9.21-22 ) ...
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... thee Certain my resolution is to die . ( 9.906-7 ) The referent of this allusion is the description of Dido as " certa mori " ( 4.564 : " resolved to die " ) . I will come to the association of Adam with Dido rather than Aeneas ...
... thee Certain my resolution is to die . ( 9.906-7 ) The referent of this allusion is the description of Dido as " certa mori " ( 4.564 : " resolved to die " ) . I will come to the association of Adam with Dido rather than Aeneas ...
Inhoudsopgave
Allusion | 13 |
Lesser Forms of Literary | 21 |
The Critical Allusion | 32 |
Copyright | |
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