John Milton's Epic Invocations: Converting the MusePeter Lang, 2000 - 159 oldal A crisis over the function and identity of the Muse occurred in seventeenth-century religious poetry: How could Christian writers use a pagan device? Using rhetorical analysis, Phillips examines epic invocations in order to show how this crisis was eventually reconciled in the works of John Milton. While predecessors such as Abraham Cowley and Guillaume du Bartas either rejected the pagan Muses outright or attempted to Christianize them, Milton invoked the inspirational power of the Muses throughout his poetic career. In Paradise Lost, Milton confronts the tension between his Muse's «name» and «meaning». While never fully rejecting the Muse's pagan past, Milton's four proems (PL I, III, VII, and IX) increasingly emphasize the muse's Christian «meaning» over her pagan «name». Ultimately, Milton's syncretic blending of pagan and Christian conventions restores vitality and resonance to the literary trope of the muse. |
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... conventions and pagan gods , in fact become the appropriate vehicles for grief . Moreover , Thyrsis's rage against the gods who tore Damon away from him . becomes a universal rage against death and its power over humanity . By the end ...
... conventions and pagan gods , in fact become the appropriate vehicles for grief . Moreover , Thyrsis's rage against the gods who tore Damon away from him . becomes a universal rage against death and its power over humanity . By the end ...
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... conventions and rhetorical patterns of classical writers . However , Milton does achieve some distance by writing a ... convention , and Epitaphium Damonis , rendered more grievous because the mourned was a fellow shepherd / poet ...
... conventions and rhetorical patterns of classical writers . However , Milton does achieve some distance by writing a ... convention , and Epitaphium Damonis , rendered more grievous because the mourned was a fellow shepherd / poet ...
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... conventions of the pastoral elegy ; in doing so , he creates works ( recalling the boy's carefully crafted cage in Theocritus ' Idyll I ) that establish him as the true heir to his poetic predecessors . By singing this funeral song ...
... conventions of the pastoral elegy ; in doing so , he creates works ( recalling the boy's carefully crafted cage in Theocritus ' Idyll I ) that establish him as the true heir to his poetic predecessors . By singing this funeral song ...
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Abraham Cowley Aeneas Aeneid Arethuse argues assert Bartas Bartas's beginning biblical Book Brutus calls Cambridge Christ Christian Muse classical Clio Comus conventions Crashaw David Davideis death Diodati divine inspiration English epic invocations epic poet epic poetry Epitaphium Damonis Erato genre God's goddess grief Heav'nly Muse heaven heavenly heroic Hesiod History of Britain Homer hymn Ibid Il Penseroso Iliad invocations in Paradise invokes the Muse John Milton King L'Allegro lament Late Civil literary Lucan Lycidas Lycidas and Epitaphium Melancholy Milton Milton's early Milton's Epic Milton's invocation Milton's Muse Mirth Muse's narrative Nativity Ode Nuttall origins Oxford pagan pagan gods pagan Muse Paradise Lost pastoral elegy Penseroso Pindar poem poet's poetic inspiration praise prayer present proem Psalms rejection relationship religious Renaissance reveals rhetorical Sabrina seventeenth-century sing song source of inspiration suggests thee theme Theocritus thou tradition Translation by Hughes University Press Urania vates Vergil verse vocation voice write