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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... poetry. Bibliography: p. 193 1. Milton, John, 1608-1674—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PR3588.C6 1974 821'.4 73-12934 ISBN 0-271-01133-5 For Bym CONTENTS Acknowledgments I / Milton's Poetical Architecture II.
... 7 Innumerable nineteenth-century critics followed in Shelley's footsteps, the ennobling of Satan reaching perhaps its most impassioned statement in Lascelles Abercrombie: But in Paradise Lost, Satan is the idea: the character.
... critics, including Samuel Johnson, that Dryden misread the poem: at the end, Satan was degraded and, Johnson points out, “Adam was restored to his Maker's favor.” For our purposes at the moment, however, this is beside the point ...
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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 |