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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... Early in his poetic career , Milton demonstrated a clear awareness of his vocation as vates , or poet - priest . ' For Milton , the vocation of poet was both an artistic and a religious calling . An examination of his early verse will ...
... Early in his poetic career , Milton demonstrated a clear awareness of his vocation as vates , or poet - priest . ' For Milton , the vocation of poet was both an artistic and a religious calling . An examination of his early verse will ...
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... early poetry reveals an ongoing tension between the poet's syncretist inclinations and his sincere devotion to God . By tracing the recurring invocations we can form a clearer picture of how Milton regarded himself as a poet and how ...
... early poetry reveals an ongoing tension between the poet's syncretist inclinations and his sincere devotion to God . By tracing the recurring invocations we can form a clearer picture of how Milton regarded himself as a poet and how ...
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... early Nativity Ode to his later epic , Paradise Lost , Milton's narrator continually acknowledges the omnipotence of God and explores the reciprocal relationship between the inspirer and the inspired . The poet's voice becomes the voice ...
... early Nativity Ode to his later epic , Paradise Lost , Milton's narrator continually acknowledges the omnipotence of God and explores the reciprocal relationship between the inspirer and the inspired . The poet's voice becomes the voice ...
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