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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... literary rebirth by means of an initiatory descent . The subsequent recovery ( and continuance ) of voice is a guarantee of literary immortality . " " " Like other elegists before him , Cowley offers his elegy to Crashaw as a memorial ...
... literary rebirth by means of an initiatory descent . The subsequent recovery ( and continuance ) of voice is a guarantee of literary immortality . " " " Like other elegists before him , Cowley offers his elegy to Crashaw as a memorial ...
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... literary critics of epic most venerated by Renaissance writers , Milton moves quickly to a critique of contemporary poets who do not observe the important law of Decorum in poetry . Taking Milton's sources as a proper reading list for ...
... literary critics of epic most venerated by Renaissance writers , Milton moves quickly to a critique of contemporary poets who do not observe the important law of Decorum in poetry . Taking Milton's sources as a proper reading list for ...
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... literary significance between poet and audience . " Here , I wish to examine the " invocation " to Book III as a literary hymn , focusing upon its debt to literary history , its function in terms of the invocations in Books I and VII ...
... literary significance between poet and audience . " Here , I wish to examine the " invocation " to Book III as a literary hymn , focusing upon its debt to literary history , its function in terms of the invocations in Books I and VII ...
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