The Miltonic MomentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 14.12.2021 - 176 Seiten Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course. Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold. Martin Evans identifies this moment of transition as "the Miltonic Moment." This provocative new study focuses primarily on three of Milton's best known early poems: "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus)," and "Lycidas." These texts share a distinctive perceptual and cognitive structure, which Evans defines as characteristically Miltonic, embracing a single moment that is both ending and beginning. The poems communicate a profound sense of intermediacy because they seem to take place between the boundaries that separate events. The works illuniated here, which also include Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained, are all about transition from one form to another: from paganism to Christianity, from youthful inexperience to moral maturity, and from pastoral retirement to heroic engagement. This transformation is often ideological as well as historical or biographical. Evans shows that the moment of transition is characteristic of all Milton's poetry, and he proposes a new way of reading one of the seminal writers of the seventeenth century. Evans concludes that the narrative reversals in Milton's poetry suggest his constant attempts to bring about an intellectual revolution that, at a time of religious and political change in England, would transform an age. |
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... Milton, John, 1608-1674. On the morning of Christ's nativity. 3. Milton, John, 1608-1674. Lycidas. 4. Milton, John, 1608-1674. Comus. 5. Renaissance—England. I. Title. II. Series. PR3588.E9 1998 821'.4—dc21 97-53104 This book is printed ...
... John Milton, 10 IT HAS NOW BEEN JUST OVER FORTY YEARS since Rosemond Tuve published her magisterial study of the images and themes in five of Milton's shorter poems. With the exception of J.B. Leishman's Milton's Minor Poems (1969) and ...
... John Bender, Seth Lerer, Marjorie Perloff, and John Rumrich, who read ... Milton Quarterly 27 (1993) 31-35; to the English Department of the ... Milton's prose and poetry are.
J. Martin Evans. ABBREVIATIONS Note: All quotations from Milton's prose and poetry are from the Columbia edition of the complete works. CE College English CQ Critical Quarterly CW The Works of John Milton ELH Journal of English Literary ...
... John Milton. As we begin to read it, we are being asked to remember everything that the poet has written so far. And just as they begin by looking back, so Milton's poems usually end by looking forward. Indeed, nothing is more ...