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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... sing . " While Cowley pays the highest tribute to Crashaw by acknowledging the strength of his influence and the worthiness of his poetry , this closing passage reveals something significant about Cowley's relationship to the Muse . The ...
... sing . " While Cowley pays the highest tribute to Crashaw by acknowledging the strength of his influence and the worthiness of his poetry , this closing passage reveals something significant about Cowley's relationship to the Muse . The ...
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... sing their Sicilian song ( Diodati died in England while Milton was away in Italy ) and to bring the sound of his lament home to England . The inspiring nymphs , moreover , become a beginning for the bereaved poet ; they sing the song ...
... sing their Sicilian song ( Diodati died in England while Milton was away in Italy ) and to bring the sound of his lament home to England . The inspiring nymphs , moreover , become a beginning for the bereaved poet ; they sing the song ...
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... Sing , Goddess , the anger of Peleus ' son Achilleus and its devastation " ( 1.1-2 ) . The invocation implies that what follows the imperative , " Sing , Goddess , " is the creation of the Muse , not the poet . The Homeric " I " ( if ...
... Sing , Goddess , the anger of Peleus ' son Achilleus and its devastation " ( 1.1-2 ) . The invocation implies that what follows the imperative , " Sing , Goddess , " is the creation of the Muse , not the poet . The Homeric " I " ( if ...
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Abraham According argues assert associated attempts becomes beginning Book Britain Brutus calls Cambridge career Christ Christian Civil classical Comus concern continues conventions Cowley Cowley's Crashaw Damonis dark Davideis death desire discussion divine early elegy England English epic established expression faith final follows gift gives God's goddess grief hand heaven heavenly heroic Holy Homer human hymn inspiration interesting invocation invokes King learning light lines literary London loss Lycidas meaning Melancholy Milton Mirth Muse narrative Nativity nature notes offer opening origins pagan Paradise Lost pastoral perhaps poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise prayer present proem questions reading rejection relationship religious remains Renaissance reveals rhetorical seems sense serve sing song Spirit suggests thee theme things thou tradition Translation true truth University Press Urania values vates Vergil verse Virtue vocation voice write