9780674416642 - The Poetry of John Milton von Teskey, Gordon (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Author-signed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/619 pages. Author's signature appears on title page, next to crossed-out printed name. "John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe: poets who achieve a total ethical and spiritual vision of the world. In this panoramic interpretation, the distinguished Milton scholar Gordon Teskey shows how the poet's changing commitments are subordinated to an aesthetic that joins beauty to truth and value to ethics. The art of poetry is rediscovered by Milton as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be. Milton's early poems include the heroic Nativity Ode; the seductive paired poems "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso"; the mythological pageant Comus, with its comically diabolical enchanter and its serious debate on the human use of nature; and "Lycidas," perhaps the greatest short poem in English and a prophecy of vast human displacements in the modern world. Teskey follows Milton's creative development in three phases, from the idealistic transcendence of the poems written in his twenties to the political engagement of the gritty, hard-hitting poems of his middle years. The third phase is that of "transcendental engagement," in the heaven-storming epic "Paradise Lost", and the great works that followed it: the intense intellectual debate "Paradise Regained", and the tragedy "Samson Agonistes".". Signed by Author(s).

HardBack. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition, Harvard University Press 2015. Very Thick Royal 8vo. 604pp. Appears unopened and unread, very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered black clothbacked boards, housed and protected in original unclipped colour pictorial dustwrapper. Tesky mankes criticism feel again like an activity which is one of the highest and most necessary activities of the mind. A central summit of the literature on Milton.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 619 pages. 9.75x6.75x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton s aesthetic joins beauty to truth and value to ethics and how he rediscovers .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton¿s aesthetic joins beauty to truth and value to ethics and how he rediscovers the art of poetry as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be.