The Miltonic MomentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1998. máj. 21. - 176 oldal 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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold.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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... appear in all its purity ; once the superfluous waste and refuse of the old man has been swept away , the new man will be revealed . All that is required is the act of separation . Evil , it thus appears , is extrinsic to the world , a ...
... appear in any other extant version of the masque , notably the omission of a long passage in the Lady's first speech ( lines 195-225 ) , the reas- signment of lines 871-82 and 938-57 , and the relocation of most of the Attendant ...
... appear to be Sabrina , whose intervention is necessary to complete the task begun by the Lady's brothers . Cued by the Attendant Spirit's advice to leave Comus's palace " while heaven lends us grace " ( 938 ) , most critics of the ...
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THE POETRY OF ABSENCE | 11 |
THE ROAD FROM HORTON | 71 |
THE POETICS OF REDEMPTION | 117 |
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