Milton and the Sense of Tradition - Hardcover

Milton and the Sense of Tradition.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Sehr gut. XIII, 240 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Miltons final works, the epic poem Paradise Regained and the tragic drama Samson Agonistes, were published together in a volume produced in 1671. In this book, Christopher Grose analyzes the two poems, showing how they are integrally related and how they constitute part of the poet s prophetic canon. To establish his argument that these poems are sustained recollections of Milton s previous works, Grose begins by discussing the pamphlets, letters, poems, and autobiographical digressions of Milton s earlier years. He focuses in particular on An Apology against a Pamphlet, which he sees as both marking an important moment of clarification in Milton s development and anticipating later issues in his prose and poetry. Grose suggests that Milton s oeuvre shows more consistency and continuity than are usually attributed to it, and he significantly revises the familiar convention of the two Miltons literary and political, verse and prose by suggesting that Milton himself invented the antithesis in moments of doubt. In the second half of the book, Grose concentrates on Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Demonstrating that these works share a unity of outlook and literary purpose, he shows how they cast light upon each other and how they rework Milton s earlier writing. According to Grose, the two poems reflect Milton s complex sense that the Reformation itself had become bound by tradition. Samson Agonistes is an aftermath for Paradise Regained, says Grose, replacing the public ministry of Jesus with the retrospections and self-creating acts of the Old Testament judge. Samson Agonistes thus becomes the ultimate statement of Milton s lifelong effort to articulate a form of Protestant humanism. - Christopher Grose is associate professor of English at the University of California in Los Angeles. ISBN 9780300041712 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 642 Original cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1186586

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