Screen LibraryThe Poetry of John Milton /
"John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe: poets who achieve a total ethical and spiritual vision of the world....
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe: poets who achieve a total ethical and spiritual vision of the world. In this panoramic interpretation, the distinguished Milton scholar Gordon Teskey shows how the poet's changing commitments are subordinated to an aesthetic that joins beauty to truth and value to ethics. The art of poetry is rediscovered by Milton as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for th |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 619 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674416642 0674416643 |
| Index Number: | PR3553 |
| CLC: | I561.072 |
| Call Number: | I561.072/T337 |
| Contents: | Part I: Transcendence. On the early poems -- On "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" -- On the work not called Comus -- On engagement in A Masque -- On "Lycidas" as primitive art -- Part II: Engagement. On the interstitial Latin poems and an English fragment -- On the sonnets and shorter poems of the political period -- On the romantics and the principles of Milton -- Part III: Transcendental engagement. On history in Paradise Lost -- On the origin in Paradise Lost -- On the verse of Paradise Lost -- On the sublime in Paradise Lost -- On temptation in Paradise Lost -- On the end in Paradise Lost - |