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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold.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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... effect of Christ's birth upon the poet himself. At the end of “New Heaven, New Warre,” for example, Robert Southwell turns from the manger scene to exhort his own soul to remain loyal to his savior: My soul with Christ join thou in ...
... effects of the experience recorded in the poem “correspond in general to the effects of the puritan conversion,” for there is no one in the poem to register those effects.12 In one of the most original articles on the Nativity Ode to ...
... . Like the women of Canterbury in T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, they are forced to bear witness, to experience as if for the first time the effects of the redeemer's birth. My disagreement with Barker thus has to do.
... effect of the tradition was to exclude the from the body of Christian revelation. With the coming of Christ, wrote Prudentius in the fourth century, “the cavern of Delphi has pagan oracles Like fallen silent, its oracles condemned; no ...
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