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The blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens : freethinking and the crisis of modernity / / Henry Weinfield, University of Notre Dame



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Autore: Weinfield Henry Visualizza persona
Titolo: The blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens : freethinking and the crisis of modernity / / Henry Weinfield, University of Notre Dame Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 821.009
Soggetto topico: Blank verse, English - History and criticism
English literature - History and criticism
Classificazione: LIT004120
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Blank 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-23210-4
1-139-50837-7
1-280-77463-0
9786613685001
1-139-51805-4
1-139-51547-0
1-139-17892-X
1-139-51455-5
1-139-51712-0
1-139-51898-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820647503321
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