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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Ralph Waterbury Condee. For Lycidas is dead , dead ere his prime , Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhyme . He must not flote upon his watry bear ...
Ralph Waterbury Condee. For Lycidas is dead , dead ere his prime , Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhyme . He must not flote upon his watry bear ...
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... dead , so is Marino , and the name of Manso , who is an old man , is linked with the ashes of Gallus and Etruscan Maecenas . Manso's great service has been to rescue the dead poets from oblivion in the tomb : Nec satis hoc visum est in ...
... dead , so is Marino , and the name of Manso , who is an old man , is linked with the ashes of Gallus and Etruscan Maecenas . Manso's great service has been to rescue the dead poets from oblivion in the tomb : Nec satis hoc visum est in ...
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... dead.17 Scaliger rightly comments that " it is by no means true , as has hither been taught , that the unhappy outcome is essential to tragedy— provided it contains horrible events . ” 18 Giraldi Cinthio agrees that the conclusion of a ...
... dead.17 Scaliger rightly comments that " it is by no means true , as has hither been taught , that the unhappy outcome is essential to tragedy— provided it contains horrible events . ” 18 Giraldi Cinthio agrees that the conclusion of a ...
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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