Regaining Paradise: Milton and the Eighteenth Century - Rilegato

Griffin, Dustin

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ISBN 10: 0521309131 ISBN 13: 9780521309134

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Riassunto

This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the eighteenth century. It refutes the old argument about Milton's allegedly 'bad influence' and challenges suggestions that great writers generally inhibit or oppress their successors. Regaining Paradise argues that what interested eighteenth-century poets was primarily Milton's garden myth and that the best writers typically found Milton, not a burden, but an inspiring resources available for their appropriation. Regaining Paradise cuts across some of the boundaries that traditionally divide English studies. It looks at Milton not in a Renaissance but an eighteenth-century context and it combines the perspectives of literary history and literary theory.

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This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the eighteenth century. It refutes the old argument about Milton's allegedly 'bad influence' and challenges suggestions that great writers generally inhibit or oppress their successors.

Contenuti:

Preface; Introduction; Part I. England's Milton: 1. Milton's politics; 2. Milton's moral idealism; 3. Milton as literary hero; Part II. After Milton: literary possibilities: 4. The traditional genres; 5. Adaptations: re-making Milton; 6. New genres; 7. Regaining paradise; Part III. The Major Writers: 8. Dryden; 9. Pope; 10. Thomson; 11. Johnson; 12. Cowper; Afterword: notes toward an eighteenth century theory of literary influence; Notes; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0521309131
• ISBN 13: 9780521309134
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312