The Miltonic MomentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 21/05/1998 - 176 páginas Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course. Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold. Martin Evans identifies this moment of transition as "the Miltonic Moment." This provocative new study focuses primarily on three of Milton's best known early poems: "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus)," and "Lycidas." These texts share a distinctive perceptual and cognitive structure, which Evans defines as characteristically Miltonic, embracing a single moment that is both ending and beginning. The poems communicate a profound sense of intermediacy because they seem to take place between the boundaries that separate events. The works illuniated here, which also include Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained, are all about transition from one form to another: from paganism to Christianity, from youthful inexperience to moral maturity, and from pastoral retirement to heroic engagement. This transformation is often ideological as well as historical or biographical. Evans shows that the moment of transition is characteristic of all Milton's poetry, and he proposes a new way of reading one of the seminal writers of the seventeenth century. Evans concludes that the narrative reversals in Milton's poetry suggest his constant attempts to bring about an intellectual revolution that, at a time of religious and political change in England, would transform an age. |
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J. Martin Evans. then it clearly followed that the pure had always coexisted with the corrupt , the virtuous with the wicked , the healthy with the diseased . If the process of producing gold by refining away the dross was an accurate ...
... clearly evident in Milton's own tract on education . " The end then of learning , " he declared , " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright . . . as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true ...
... clearly differentiated phases . Christ will begin by " fulfill- ing that which thou didst want , / Obedience to the Law of God , impos'd / On penaltie of death " ( 12.396-98 ) . Then he will com- plete his redemptive mission by ...
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THE POETRY OF ABSENCE | 11 |
THE ROAD FROM HORTON | 71 |
THE POETICS OF REDEMPTION | 117 |
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Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature Grace Tiffany Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |
Milton's Cambridge Latin: Performing in the Genres, 1625-1632 John K. Hale Visualização de excertos - 2005 |