The Miltonic MomentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1998. jan. 1. - 175 oldal Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course. Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will immediately begin to unfold. Martin Evans identifies this moment of transition as "the Miltonic Moment." This provocative new study focuses primarily on three of Milton's best known early poems: "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus)," and "Lycidas." These texts share a distinctive perceptual and cognitive structure, which Evans defines as characteristically Miltonic, embracing a single moment that is both ending and beginning. The poems communicate a profound sense of intermediacy because they seem to take place between the boundaries that separate events. The works illuniated here, which also include Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained, are all about transition from one form to another: from paganism to Christianity, from youthful inexperience to moral maturity, and from pastoral retirement to heroic engagement. This transformation is often ideological as well as historical or biographical. Evans shows that the moment of transition is characteristic of all Milton's poetry, and he proposes a new way of reading one of the seminal writers of the seventeenth century. Evans concludes that the narrative reversals in Milton's poetry suggest his constant attempts to bring about an intellectual revolution that, at a time of religious and political change in England, would transform an age. |
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... less clearly than the sombre arguments of Il Penseroso try to contradict them ; and the first line of Lycidas invites us to remember every poem Milton had ever written before 1637. To a greater degree than that of any other English poet ...
... less clearly than the sombre arguments of Il Penseroso try to contradict them ; and the first line of Lycidas invites us to remember every poem Milton had ever written before 1637. To a greater degree than that of any other English poet ...
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... less significantly , perhaps , all three poems were written during the eleven years ' tyranny , when all parliamentary activity had been brought to a standstill by Charles I's dissolution of the House of Commons in 1629. The decade ...
... less significantly , perhaps , all three poems were written during the eleven years ' tyranny , when all parliamentary activity had been brought to a standstill by Charles I's dissolution of the House of Commons in 1629. The decade ...
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... less than a prolonged meditation on the physical , moral , spiritual , and literary consequences of the Christian experience of regeneration . In chapter 2 I investigate the parallel transition in Comus from the classical ethic of ...
... less than a prolonged meditation on the physical , moral , spiritual , and literary consequences of the Christian experience of regeneration . In chapter 2 I investigate the parallel transition in Comus from the classical ethic of ...
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... less in such specific textual details than in the more general structural features that they all share . For with their continual emphasis on transformation , their profound sense of imminence , and their con- cluding visions of a ...
... less in such specific textual details than in the more general structural features that they all share . For with their continual emphasis on transformation , their profound sense of imminence , and their con- cluding visions of a ...
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