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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... pattern in which Milton sets forth the ideas he describes; it is also an instrument by which the significance of the poem's events fulfill the kind of larger meanings which only structure can impart. For example, in Paradise Lost the ...
... pattern with its inevitable heroic implications; he creates a poem in which the new Christian ethical ideal of heroism, the heroism of patience and heroic martyrdom, emerges within and by means of the structure of the poem. Consequently ...
... patterns of the two poems have several interesting resemblances, “Elegia Tertia” falters in integrating its poetic patterns with its extra-poetic situation. This failure helps to point out why, where, and how “Lycidas” makes a ...
... patterns of feelings at the beginning of the poem to a related but different position at the end of the poem. Thus at the beginning, the poem speaks of the need for justifying “the wayes of God to men”; this line is followed by scenes ...
... pattern is neither rigidly fixed nor shifted; it is shifting.” 5 But the structural pattern is more than shifting; it is progressing strongly toward ends which are implicit in the total pattern of the poem. We can see this dynamic or ...
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 |