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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... reason for this departure from chronological order is that the extra-poetic situations in “Elegia Tertia” and “Lycidas” are quite similar; while the poetic patterns of the two poems have several interesting resemblances, “Elegia Tertia ...
... 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 central role on the ground that his very evil, like Richard's, is what ...
... reason for Ovid's hatred of Tomis was that he could not write poetry in such a place. 8 Milton uses this as a barb for the university that sent him home; instead of fostering poetry, Cambridge is as hostile to it as Tomis, Milton ...
... reasons, resemble those in “Elegia Tertia.” Further on in “Lycidas,” Milton will ask “What boots it with uncessant care ...,” paralleling the “tristi sic ore querebar” in “Elegia Tertia,” and both poems conclude in peace. The initial ...
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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 |