Reading the Classics and Paradise LostU of Nebraska Press, 01.01.1993 - 222 Seiten Milton?s early commentators?Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others?not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere ?background.? As a consequence, William M. Porter argues, not only is the foundational dimension of Milton?s poetry now hardly visible, even to scholars, but the potential of Milton?s poetry to revitalize the reading of the classics has been diminished. In this insightful study, Porter attempts once again to read both the classics and Milton?s epic poem sensitively and intelligently. He exposes the recklessly speculative and tendentious character of much earlier work on Milton?s allusions, in which allusions were promiscuously posited and in which Paradise Lost was too often regarded naively as triumphing over the classics. Porter demonstrates that Milton?s allusions, in which allusions to the classics, while fewer than has been supposed, are rich with wit, irony, and thought that can be grasped only by a reader with a double perspective. |
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William Malin Porter. Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1 Nec plura adludens : Allusion 13 The Difficulty of Attempting to Isolate Literary Allusions 13 Lesser Forms of Literary Intertextuality 21 The Critical Allusion 32 Allusion as ...
William Malin Porter. Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1 Nec plura adludens : Allusion 13 The Difficulty of Attempting to Isolate Literary Allusions 13 Lesser Forms of Literary Intertextuality 21 The Critical Allusion 32 Allusion as ...
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... Allusion and Translation 129 Dobson's Paradisus Amissus 136 " Quantum mutatus ab illo❞ 140 Sannazaro , Imitation , and Allusion Translation in Reverse 167 Appendix 171 Notes 179 Works Cited 207 Index 219 153 Preface The ambivalence of ...
... Allusion and Translation 129 Dobson's Paradisus Amissus 136 " Quantum mutatus ab illo❞ 140 Sannazaro , Imitation , and Allusion Translation in Reverse 167 Appendix 171 Notes 179 Works Cited 207 Index 219 153 Preface The ambivalence of ...
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Allusion | 13 |
Lesser Forms of Literary | 21 |
The Critical Allusion | 32 |
Thought | 43 |
Design | 83 |
A Poem in Twelve Books | 94 |
The Aeneid in a Mirror | 105 |
imperium Oceano famam qui terminet | 116 |
Language | 129 |
Dobsons Paradisus Amissus | 136 |
Appendix | 171 |
Notes | 179 |
Works Cited | 207 |
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Achilles Adam Aeneas Aeneid allu alluding Anchises ancient angels animis caelestibus Augustus Biblical Blessington borrowing Caesar Catullus chapter cites Classical Epic Club of Hercules commentary context critical allusion dactylic hexameter Descende caelo descent Dido divine Dobson earlier earth echo edition English Ennius enthymeme example fact Georgics gods Greek heaven Hell hermeneutic Hesiod hexameter Homer Horace Horace's Hume Iliad imitation important interpretation intertextual invocation John Milton language Latin lines literary literature Lost's meaning Milton's allusions Milton's classicism Milton's poetry modern Muses narrative Neo-Latin notes Odes Odyssey original Orpheus Ovid pagan Paradise Lost parallel Partu Virginis passage poem poet poet's poetic Press proem prologue prose quoted reader reference Renaissance reworking rhetorical Roman Sannazaro Satan says seems significant simile sion Spenser structure style suggests target Tartarus Theogony tion Tiresias titanomachy translation Turnus twelve books verbal Vergil Vergilian verse words Zeus καὶ τε
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