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200 14$aThe blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens $efreethinking and the crisis of modernity /$fHenry Weinfield$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (x, 254 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction: blank-verse freethinking and its opponents -- 1. 'In wand'ring mazes lost': skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave -- 2. 'With serpent error wand'ring found thir way': Milton's counterplot revisited -- 3. 'Man's mortality': Milton after Wordsworth -- 4. 'These beauteous forms': 'Tintern Abbey' and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis -- 5. 'Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power': Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude -- 6. 'Who shall save?' Shelley's quest for the Absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor -- 7. Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems -- 8. 'Of happy men that have the power to die': Tennyson's 'Tithonus' -- 9. Stevens' anatomy.
330   $aBlank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking, used it to explore change and confront modernity, sometimes in unexpectedly radical ways. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens. He traces the philosophical and psychological struggles underlying these poets' choice of form and genre, and the extent to which their work is marked, consciously or not, by the influence of other poets. Unusually attuned to echoes between poems, this study sheds new light on how important poetic texts, most of which are central to the literary canon, unfold as works of art.
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