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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... problems of structural progression, they also draw much of their strength from the specific poetic techniques Milton creates as solutions. Four points on the ordering of the following chapters need to be explained. It seems best to ...
... problems of structural unity and attempted solutions to these problems. Further, the first three Latin elegies, like Paradise Lost, create poetic situations which call for a dynamic structure: in the elegies the poet must find a way to ...
... 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,” the progression is always extra-poetic; that is, the ...
... -face with a difficult problem of poetic organization: how is he to manage this structural progression from grief to joy? The central section of “Elegia Tertia” does this first by the poet's lament to Death, but from there on.
... problem of creating the poem and giving it a structural impetus which uses its poetic resolution to achieve its extra-poetic resolution. The poem develops two related but separate conflicts—the poet's grief at the death of Lycidas, and ...
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 |