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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... bright. (I. 84-87) Countless editors have pointed out the resemblance of this speech by the ArchEnemy to one by Aeneas, who is addressing the ghost of Hector: Ei mihi, qualis erat! quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore, qui.
... Unterrifi'd, and like a Comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th' Artick Sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and Warr. (II. 707-11) And the epic warrior that Satan most resembles is not.
Ralph W. Condee. And the epic warrior that Satan most resembles is not the antagonist Turnus nor the villainous Mezentius, but, again, the heroic Aeneas: Ardet apex capiti, cristisque a vertice flamma funditur, et vastos umbo vomit ...
... resembles Aeneas. The parallel between Adam's vision of the future, explicated by Michael in Books XI and XII of Paradise Lost, and that of Aeneas, explicated by Anchises in Book VI of the Aeneid, is very close, and the parallelism is ...
... 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 sections of ...
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 |