The Poetic Birth: Milton's Poems of 1645This book offers a reading of most of the poems collected by Milton in his youth and early maturity for Humphrey Moseley's publication of "The Poems of Mr John Milton" in 1645. The edition is examined as a poetic and political manifesto, anticipating many of the ideas more fully discussed in "Paradise Lost". Dr Moseley examines the development of Milton's poetic calling, its origins, authority and national importance, and sets these ideas in their European context. Also explored is Milton's inheritance not only from Classical authors but also from the Italians and Spenser. Dr Moseley then draws attention to the significant structure of the 1645 volume and discusses the manner in which Milton presents material, which was originally written for one audience and context, to another set of readers who knew him as a highly active political figure and who were intended to read this book in the months after the battle of Naseby. A prose translation of all the Latin poems is included. |
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Page 102
... whole structure is going to be ; that can affect our reading only after it is complete - though if we are alert we may notice , and be intrigued by , a developing pattern as we read . After reading we may find that the signals conveyed ...
... whole structure is going to be ; that can affect our reading only after it is complete - though if we are alert we may notice , and be intrigued by , a developing pattern as we read . After reading we may find that the signals conveyed ...
Page 109
... whole sequence is the way ' The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn ' ( 1. 223 ) : this must refer not only to the infant Christ as the Sun of Righteousness rising to dispel the gloom of paganism , and to the physical light of the ...
... whole sequence is the way ' The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn ' ( 1. 223 ) : this must refer not only to the infant Christ as the Sun of Righteousness rising to dispel the gloom of paganism , and to the physical light of the ...
Page 111
... whole is written in full knowledge of the events that flowed from that Nativity . We must expect therefore to find what we might call structural irony in the whole poem , where the self - contained structure of the hymn and its ...
... whole is written in full knowledge of the events that flowed from that Nativity . We must expect therefore to find what we might call structural irony in the whole poem , where the self - contained structure of the hymn and its ...
Contents
The ceaseless round of study and reading | 20 |
3 | 28 |
and Orpheus | 54 |
Copyright | |
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