LEADER 03866nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910820647503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-23210-4 010 $a1-139-50837-7 010 $a1-280-77463-0 010 $a9786613685001 010 $a1-139-51805-4 010 $a1-139-51547-0 010 $a1-139-17892-X 010 $a1-139-51455-5 010 $a1-139-51712-0 010 $a1-139-51898-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000206148 035 $a(EBL)944756 035 $a(OCoLC)796383881 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000687435 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687435 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756602 035 $a(PQKB)10015916 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139178921 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC944756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL944756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578214 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368500 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000206148 100 $a20120321d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens $efreethinking and the crisis of modernity /$fHenry Weinfield, University of Notre Dame 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (x, 254 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-50783-9 311 $a1-107-02540-0 320 $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. 606 $aBlank verse, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aBlank verse, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821.009 686 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh 700 $aWeinfield$b Henry$01625240 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820647503321 996 $aThe blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens$93960642 997 $aUNINA