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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... Thou , thou ( true Neptune ) Tamer of the Ocean , Thou Earth's drad Shaker ( at whose only Word , Th ' Eölian Scouts are quickly still'd and stirr'd ) Lift up my soule , my drousie spirits refine , With learned Art enrich This Worke of ...
... Thou , thou ( true Neptune ) Tamer of the Ocean , Thou Earth's drad Shaker ( at whose only Word , Th ' Eölian Scouts are quickly still'd and stirr'd ) Lift up my soule , my drousie spirits refine , With learned Art enrich This Worke of ...
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... thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! ( ll . 37–38 ) Following a portrayal of the idyllic life that Milton and King had enjoyed together as students at Cambridge ( 11. 25-36 ) , this phrase ( describing the present ...
... thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! ( ll . 37–38 ) Following a portrayal of the idyllic life that Milton and King had enjoyed together as students at Cambridge ( 11. 25-36 ) , this phrase ( describing the present ...
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... thou art call'd , whose Voice divine Following above th ' Olympian Hill I soar , Above the flight of Pegasean wing . The meaning , not the Name I call : for thou Nor of the Muses nine , nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st , but Heav ...
... thou art call'd , whose Voice divine Following above th ' Olympian Hill I soar , Above the flight of Pegasean wing . The meaning , not the Name I call : for thou Nor of the Muses nine , nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st , but Heav ...
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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