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 Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold.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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... original poem, the Carmina Elegiaca, composed while he was still a student at St. Paul's School, Milton dramatizes the daily human experience that most closely corresponds to the kind of narrative crux I have been attempting to define ...
... original production of Comus must have had a very similar feeling, for to a greater degree than any other seventeenth-century masque Milton's tribute to the Earl of Bridgewater is relentlessly local and contemporaneous in its setting ...
... original articles on the Nativity Ode to appear in the last ten years, Richard Halpern argues that, by “putting off epic expansiveness to dwell in the 'humble ode,'” Milton enacts a kenosis or “emptying out” analogous to “Christ's ...
... original state of perfection; the earth will produce plants without cultivation, the animals will no longer prey on one another, and both the animal and the vegetable kingdoms will become wholly benign: “For thee, child, shall the earth ...
... original Pauline formulations were clearly still dominant when Milton came to compose his definition of the phenomenon in De Doctrina Christiana. Conversion, or, as he called it, regeneration, “is that change operated by the Word and ...