The Miltonic MomentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021. dec. 14. - 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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold.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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... believe to be one of the most distinctive qualities of Milton's early work—its unity. Reading almost any of the poems that eventually found their way into the volume of 1645, one is struck over and over again by their extraordinary ...
... believe it is part of an overall strategy that is quintessentially Puritan. We may begin by noting that though the poet is the most notable absentee, he is by no means the only one. For whereas most representations of the Nativity in ...
... believe, the characteristically Puritan distaste for allowing any intermediary to intrude between the individual soul and its Maker. By purging the scene of all the traditional witnesses of the Nativity, Milton forces the reader to ...
... believe but that a certain one of the poets, the most famous in the Roman tongue, before saying of the renewal of the age things which seem to fit with the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, prefixed a verse in which he says, 'The last ...
... believe, is to be found in the structure of the conversion process itself. According to A.D. Nock, conversion may be defined as a “reorientation of the soul of an individual, his deliberate turning from indifference or from an earlier ...