Author: Susanne Woods
Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Literar
ISBN: 9780820704661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from the arena of civic order to that of the individual conscience engaged in the process of choosing; this, in turn, invites readers to consider alternatives even to Milton's own positions"--
Milton and the Poetics of Freedom
Author: Susanne Woods
Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Literar
ISBN: 9780820704661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from the arena of civic order to that of the individual conscience engaged in the process of choosing; this, in turn, invites readers to consider alternatives even to Milton's own positions"--
Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Literar
ISBN: 9780820704661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from the arena of civic order to that of the individual conscience engaged in the process of choosing; this, in turn, invites readers to consider alternatives even to Milton's own positions"--
The Fetters of Rhyme
Author: Rebecca M. Rush
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215685
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from “the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming.” Despite his claim to be a pioneer, Milton was not initiating a new line of thought—English poets had been debating about rhyme and its connections to liberty, freedom, and constraint since Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The Fetters of Rhyme traces this dynamic history of rhyme from the 1590s through the 1670s. Rebecca Rush uncovers the surprising associations early modern readers attached to rhyming forms like couplets and sonnets, and she shows how reading poetic form from a historical perspective yields fresh insights into verse’s complexities. Rush explores how early modern poets imagined rhyme as a band or fetter, comparing it to the bonds linking individuals to political, social, and religious communities. She considers how Edmund Spenser’s sonnet rhymes stood as emblems of voluntary confinement, how John Donne’s revival of the Chaucerian couplet signaled sexual and political radicalism, and how Ben Jonson’s verse charted a middle way between licentious Elizabethan couplet poets and slavish sonneteers. Rush then looks at why the royalist poets embraced the prerational charms of rhyme, and how Milton spent his career reckoning with rhyme’s allures. Examining a poetic feature that sits between sound and sense, liberty and measure, The Fetters of Rhyme elucidates early modern efforts to negotiate these forces in verse making and reading.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215685
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from “the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming.” Despite his claim to be a pioneer, Milton was not initiating a new line of thought—English poets had been debating about rhyme and its connections to liberty, freedom, and constraint since Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The Fetters of Rhyme traces this dynamic history of rhyme from the 1590s through the 1670s. Rebecca Rush uncovers the surprising associations early modern readers attached to rhyming forms like couplets and sonnets, and she shows how reading poetic form from a historical perspective yields fresh insights into verse’s complexities. Rush explores how early modern poets imagined rhyme as a band or fetter, comparing it to the bonds linking individuals to political, social, and religious communities. She considers how Edmund Spenser’s sonnet rhymes stood as emblems of voluntary confinement, how John Donne’s revival of the Chaucerian couplet signaled sexual and political radicalism, and how Ben Jonson’s verse charted a middle way between licentious Elizabethan couplet poets and slavish sonneteers. Rush then looks at why the royalist poets embraced the prerational charms of rhyme, and how Milton spent his career reckoning with rhyme’s allures. Examining a poetic feature that sits between sound and sense, liberty and measure, The Fetters of Rhyme elucidates early modern efforts to negotiate these forces in verse making and reading.
Milton and the Poetics of Freedom
Author: Susanne Woods
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820705941
Category : Liberty in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from the arena of civic order to that of the individual conscience engaged in the process of choosing; this, in turn, invites readers to consider alternatives even to Milton's own positions"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820705941
Category : Liberty in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from the arena of civic order to that of the individual conscience engaged in the process of choosing; this, in turn, invites readers to consider alternatives even to Milton's own positions"--
Milton and the Burden of Freedom
Author: Warren Chernaik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107153182
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton's writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107153182
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton's writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Areopagitica
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose
Author: David Loewenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521344586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book explores the interconnections between Milton's politics, poetics and prose writings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521344586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book explores the interconnections between Milton's politics, poetics and prose writings.
The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England
Author: Blaine Greteman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book argues that concepts of youth and childhood were central to seventeenth-century debates about political and poetic voice.
Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics
Author: P. Loscocco
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137470054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137470054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.
Liberty and Poetic Licence
Author: Bernard G. Beatty
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853235899
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Moving chronologically from Byron's earliest writings to those at the end of his life, Liberty and Poetic Licence brings together a distinguished group of Byron scholars to consider every aspect of Byron's poetry and prose. The focal point of the collection—and, arguably, of Byron's life and work—is freedom, and particular essays relate the concept of freedom to topics such as grammar, animal rights, and morality. The wide range of issues addressed by the prominent international contributors insure that Liberty and Poetic Licence will be essential to scholars of Byron and English Romanticism.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853235899
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Moving chronologically from Byron's earliest writings to those at the end of his life, Liberty and Poetic Licence brings together a distinguished group of Byron scholars to consider every aspect of Byron's poetry and prose. The focal point of the collection—and, arguably, of Byron's life and work—is freedom, and particular essays relate the concept of freedom to topics such as grammar, animal rights, and morality. The wide range of issues addressed by the prominent international contributors insure that Liberty and Poetic Licence will be essential to scholars of Byron and English Romanticism.