Author: Ants OrasPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Milton's Editors and Commentators from Patrick Hume to Henry John Todd
Author: Ants OrasPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Milton's Editors and Commentators from Patrick Hume to Henry John Todd
Author: Ants OrasMilton's Edotprs and Commentators from Patrick Hume to Henry John Todd 9
Author: Ants OrasPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Shakespeare, Milton and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing
Author: Marcus WalshPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521602907
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Study of the theories and methods informing editions of Milton and Shakespeare in the eighteenth century.
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: The Latin and Greek poems, by D. Bush. The Italian poems, by J. Shaw and A. Giamatti
Author: Merritt Yerkes HughesPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088794
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton, Part 1
Author: Arthur S. P. WoodhousePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism
Author: David A. HarperPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003813038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy. Milton’s earliest readers and critics (Dryden, Addison, Dennis, Hume, and Bentley) confronted a poem and author at odds with prevailing culture and the revanchist conservatism of the restored monarchy. Grappling with the epic required navigating Milton’s reputation as a “fanatick” who had called in print for Charles I’s execution, inveighed openly against monarchy on the eve of Charles II’s return, and held heretical views on the trinity, baptism, and divorce. Harper argues that foundational figures in English literary criticism rose to this challenge by innovating new ways of reading: producing creative (and subversive) rewritings of Paradise Lost, articulating new theories of the sublime, explaining the poem in the first substantial body of annotations for an English vernacular text, and by pioneering early forms of textual criticism and editing.
Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost
Author: William Malin PorterPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803237063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
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.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott KastanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725314
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2656
Book Description
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
The Other Virgil
Author: Craig KallendorfPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607398
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest, are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the 'other Virgil' is made clear.