Structure in Milton's PoetryPenn State Press, 31 jan 1991 - 202 pagina's Milton's skill in constructing poems whose structure is determined, not by rule or precedent, but by the thought to be expressed, is one of his chief accomplishments as a creative artist. Professor Condee analyzes seventeen of Milton's poems, both early and late, well and badly organized, in order to trace the poet's developing ability to create increasingly complex poetic structures. Three aspects of Milton's use of poetic structure are stressed: the relation of the parts to the whole and parts to parts, his ability to unite actual events with the poetic situation, and his use and variation of literary tradition to establish the desired structural unity. |
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... Epitaphium Damonis” as the Transcendence over the Pastoral IX / Samson Agonistes and the Tragic Justice of God's Ways X / Paradise Regained as the Transcendence over the Epic XI / The Developing Concept of Structure in Milton's Poetry ...
... Epitaphium Damonis,” and therefore before Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, thus perhaps departing yet again from chronology. But the question of the date of Samson Agonistes is still not firmly answered, and an evaluation of all the ...
... Epitaphium Damonis.” The poem for Gostlin has had its defenders, though not many.17 It parades a great deal of classical learning, but little of the learning serves any poetic purpose, and in this respect the poem is a step backwards ...
... September 1626, is a far better poem and more interesting as a step in Milton's development. More than any other early poem it foreshadows the two great epicedia of Milton's maturity, “Lycidas” and “Epitaphium Damonis.” It uses.
... Epitaphium Damonis” magnificently achieve. It states the extra-poetic problem, the death of Bishop Andrewes, and then moves on to its extra-poetic resolution, the vision of Andrewes in Heaven. But unlike “Lycidas” and “Epitaphium Damonis ...
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The Fair Infant Elegia Quinta and the Nativity | |
The Companion Pieces and Ad Patrem | |
Comus as a MultiDimensional Poem | |
Mansus and the Panegyric Tradition | |
Epitaphium Damonis as the Transcendence over the Pastoral | |
Samson Agonistes and the Tragic Justice of Gods Ways | |
Paradise Regained as the Transcendence over the Epic | |
The Developing Concept of Structure in Miltons Poetry | |
Notes Works Cited | |
Index | |
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Structure in Milton's Poetry: from the Foundation to the Pinnacles Ralph Waterbury Condee Fragmentweergave - 1974 |