Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's IronyWhy do we hate Milton's God? Victoria Silver reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. |
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... readers—readers who have seen far more deeply into the poet's words than is usual. Originality here is not only impossible but also undesirable, because it refuses a history of such rare if sometimes perverse insightfulness. It is ...
... distinctions. The “ingenious medley” of human perception, forever tossed between likeness and difference, in their hands becomes a critical principle not unlike irony itself, my which we would do well to observe in reading.
... reading the literature of this sceptical and abruptly self-conscious age. I have tried to implement that recognition in the conduct of argument, if only because irony like any other human expression cannot be confined to a single ...
... readers have had of Milton's justification in Paradise Lost, a preliminary scrutiny almost conventional to a certain kind of Milton study since Empson or even Walter Raleigh. Like Empson's introduction, it acknowledges the significance ...
... Richard Kroll with every sentence on every page, is there a book here worth reading. The debt I owe my parents is incalculable, like their loss. ABBREVIATIONS CC Calvin: Commentaries, ed. and tr. Joseph Haroutunian (Philadelphia: