Structure in Milton's Poetry: from the Foundation to the PinnaclesMilton'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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Page 154
... Paradise Lost ; Milton's language is startlingly simple and direct . In fact its laconic brusqueness when we expect graceful elaboration shocks us ... Paradise Lost progresses in some obvious narrative ways 154 Structure in Milton's Poetry.
... Paradise Lost ; Milton's language is startlingly simple and direct . In fact its laconic brusqueness when we expect graceful elaboration shocks us ... Paradise Lost progresses in some obvious narrative ways 154 Structure in Milton's Poetry.
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... Paradise Lost is able to include the adventures proper to an epic without condoning them as evidence of the highest virtue . But at other times Paradise Lost vacillates by con- demning the very thing it attempts . Paradise Regained , on ...
... Paradise Lost is able to include the adventures proper to an epic without condoning them as evidence of the highest virtue . But at other times Paradise Lost vacillates by con- demning the very thing it attempts . Paradise Regained , on ...
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... Paradise Lost , but which he never quite so boldly built into the very form of the earlier poem . We may argue , if we like , that we prefer the good old intrinsic blood and guts , that we like the battles of the Aeneid or the Iliad ...
... Paradise Lost , but which he never quite so boldly built into the very form of the earlier poem . We may argue , if we like , that we prefer the good old intrinsic blood and guts , that we like the battles of the Aeneid or the Iliad ...
Contents
The Dynamic Structure of Paradise Lost | 5 |
The Early Latin Poems and Lycidas | 21 |
The Fair Infant Elegia Quinta | 43 |
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