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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... epic achieved by placing Satan repeatedly against the background of Aeneas ... tradition . What Milton has done in Paradise Regained is quite similar to ... epic tradition . Sometimes the poem accepts the epic form , sometimes it rejects ...
... epic achieved by placing Satan repeatedly against the background of Aeneas ... tradition . What Milton has done in Paradise Regained is quite similar to ... epic tradition . Sometimes the poem accepts the epic form , sometimes it rejects ...
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... epic tradition ; he explicitly points to it here and then turns his back on it . This is what I mean by an anti - epic element in the poem . By Milton's dialogue with the epic tradition I mean this artful acceptance and rejection of the ...
... epic tradition ; he explicitly points to it here and then turns his back on it . This is what I mean by an anti - epic element in the poem . By Milton's dialogue with the epic tradition I mean this artful acceptance and rejection of the ...
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... epic poem could go much further than this toward making its conflict more spiritual or loftier . Paradise Regained thus becomes a poem not merely in keeping with the exalted nature of the epic tradition ( " the best and most ...
... epic poem could go much further than this toward making its conflict more spiritual or loftier . Paradise Regained thus becomes a poem not merely in keeping with the exalted nature of the epic tradition ( " the best and most ...
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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