With mortal voice the creation of Paradise lost /
Shawcross, John T.
With mortal voice the creation of Paradise lost / John T. Shawcross. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1982. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Rhetor as Creator; 2. Inspiration and Meaning; 3. The Thesis and the Theme; 4. The Hero; 5. Structural Patterns; 6. Numerological Relationships; 7. Sources as Meaning and Structure; 8. The Genre; 9. The Style; 10. The Myth of Return; 11. The Myth of Exodus; 12. The Poem as Novelistic Technique; 13. The Poem as Entity; Appendix: The Dates of Composition; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
More often than not, critics have looked upon Milton's great epic not as a literary work but rather as a theological tract or a display of Renaissance learning. In this book John Shawcross seeks to redress that critical imbalance by examining the poem for its literary values. In doing so he reveals the scope and depth of Milton's poetic craftsmanship in his control of such elements as structure, myth, style, and language; and he offers new approaches to reading Paradise Lost as a literary masterpiece rather than a relic of religious history.
9780813164649
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Electronic Books.
PR3562 / .W584 1982
With mortal voice the creation of Paradise lost / John T. Shawcross. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1982. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Rhetor as Creator; 2. Inspiration and Meaning; 3. The Thesis and the Theme; 4. The Hero; 5. Structural Patterns; 6. Numerological Relationships; 7. Sources as Meaning and Structure; 8. The Genre; 9. The Style; 10. The Myth of Return; 11. The Myth of Exodus; 12. The Poem as Novelistic Technique; 13. The Poem as Entity; Appendix: The Dates of Composition; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
More often than not, critics have looked upon Milton's great epic not as a literary work but rather as a theological tract or a display of Renaissance learning. In this book John Shawcross seeks to redress that critical imbalance by examining the poem for its literary values. In doing so he reveals the scope and depth of Milton's poetic craftsmanship in his control of such elements as structure, myth, style, and language; and he offers new approaches to reading Paradise Lost as a literary masterpiece rather than a relic of religious history.
9780813164649
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Electronic Books.
PR3562 / .W584 1982