The Miltonic MomentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 01 հնվ, 1998 թ. - 175 էջ 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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold.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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... 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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward , at the same time , to a future that will immediately begin to unfold .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 ...
... 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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward , at the same time , to a future that will immediately begin to unfold .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 ...
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... course of its prepara- tion I received helpful comments and advice from numerous stu- dents , friends and colleagues , and in particular from John Bender , Seth Lerer , Marjorie Perloff , and John Rumrich , who read earlier drafts of ...
... course of its prepara- tion I received helpful comments and advice from numerous stu- dents , friends and colleagues , and in particular from John Bender , Seth Lerer , Marjorie Perloff , and John Rumrich , who read earlier drafts of ...
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... course . Milton's poems con- sequently look both backward and forward , backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated , forward to a future that will begin to unfold as soon as the poem is over . In William Kerrigan's ...
... course . Milton's poems con- sequently look both backward and forward , backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated , forward to a future that will begin to unfold as soon as the poem is over . In William Kerrigan's ...
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... course of everyday experience . In the case of the Nativity Ode , for in- stance , history is temporarily suspended as the poem begins ; the sun literally stands still , and the poem unfolds in a kind of extratemporal interim until , at ...
... course of everyday experience . In the case of the Nativity Ode , for in- stance , history is temporarily suspended as the poem begins ; the sun literally stands still , and the poem unfolds in a kind of extratemporal interim until , at ...
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... course , the much de- bated issue of Milton's political stance in the years preceding the Puritan revolution . David Norbrook believes that " Milton's early poetry is radical not only in its explicit political comments but in its ...
... course , the much de- bated issue of Milton's political stance in the years preceding the Puritan revolution . David Norbrook believes that " Milton's early poetry is radical not only in its explicit political comments but in its ...
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