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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... play. It is helpful to introduce this idea of the “focal hero” for two reasons: (1) to differentiate the patently false argument that Satan is the ethical hero from the subtler argument which admits his evil but still claims for him a ...
... plays he had read, then to the women he had seen, and finally returns with reluctance to its theme of exile. What actually gives the poem much of its organization is a device quite similar to that which, over forty years later, was to ...
... plays such an important part in these four poems (not to mention variations on the idea in Paradise Lost), and since Milton writes with such a deep awareness of his literary tradition, it will help to observe the ancestry of these ...
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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 |