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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... Satan's hatred, of a universe of unrest. Some ten thousand lines later the poem arrives at a point where Michael reveals to Adam that a loving God will Satan with his perverted World, then raise From the conflagrant mass, purg'd and ...
... Satan. The relation of these two figures to the structure of Paradise Lost is a complex one and it gave rise, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the celebrated Satanist controversy. As we all know, it was ...
... Satan is not the hero of Paradise Lost, but that he is in a very significant way one of the heroes; that when we examine in precisely what way he is a hero, we shall move closer to comprehending the poem's use of the epic tradition in ...
... Satan who wins; therefore if the poem is an epic, the poem's structure assigns the role of hero to Satan. Parenthetically, one should note the rejoinder of several critics, including Samuel Johnson, that Dryden misread the poem: at the ...
... Satan triumphs and thus is, like Aeneas, an epic hero. Indeed, Satan is not the victor and Adam is not “foiled,” but departs in a state of enlightenment which defies reduction to a single phrase. Milton is a very subtle and complex poet ...
Inhoudsopgave
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 |