"Paradise Lost" and the Classical Epic - Hardcover

Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XIII, 126 Seiten / p. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Milton s classical background played an important part in the conception and composition of Paradise Lost, but too often the tracing of the classical sources of this great poem is confined to piecemeal works of scholarship and to learned footnotes. In this detailed and systematic guide to Milton s classical antecedents, Francis C. Blessington uses his analysis as a starting-point for his own reading of Paradise Lost. Older classical parallels are re-evaluated and new ones are suggested, making the book an invaluable introduction to the classical background of Paradise Lost, a dimension which Milton considered essential and which is too often praised but neglected today. -- Dr Blessington believes that the relationship of Paradise Lost to the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid is more intimate, subtle and pervasive than has yet been recognized. The three earlier epics are the literary grammar for Milton s poem and the source of much of its power. Dr Blessington shows that Milton did not just mine these poems for allusions but wrote his own epic as a continuous dialogue with all three. In so doing, he modulated from direct allusion to refined suggestion, from the re-working of a specific classical passage to the conflation of several such passages. Every aspect of the poem - setting, character, narrator, theme, style and structure - is part of this correction and extension of Homer and Virgil. The classical epic, Dr Blessington contends, lies behind even the most Christian sections of the poem and forms part of its theology. ISBN 9780710001603 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 342 Originalpappband mit Originalschutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 1222364

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