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The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens : Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity.
A detailed study of Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of blank verse.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE BLANK-VERSE TRADITION FROM MILTON TO STEVENS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Blank-verse freethinking and its opponents; CHAPTER 1: "In wand'ring mazes lost": skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave; CHAPTER 2: "With Serpent error wand'ring found thir way": Milton's counter-plot revisited; CHAPTER 3: "Man's mortality": Milton after Wordsworth; CHAPTER 4: "These beauteous forms": "Tintern Abbey" and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis; TITLE, THEME, GENRE; LANDSCAPE AS METAPHOR: GRATITUDE AND IRONY.
- SKEPTICISM AND THE RECONSTITUTION OF HOPECHAPTER 5: "Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power": Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude; THE DREAM OF THE ARAB; THE BOY OF WINANDER AND DROWNED MAN EPISODES; CHAPTER 6: "Who shall save?": Shelley's quest for the absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor; A DEFENCE OF POETRY: THE "POETIC" VERSUS THE "PROSAIC"; ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE: THE ORPHIC EXPLANATION OF THE EARTH; CHAPTER 7: Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems; HYPERION AS ALLEGORY.
- THE PROGRESS OF POESY: GRAY, BLACK, HAZLITT, PEACOCK, WORDSWORTHTHE FALL OF HYPERION: VISION AND THE REFUSAL OF VISION; CHAPTER 8: "Of happy men that have the power to die": Tennyson's "Tithonus"; TENYSON'S "PENDENT"; ECCLESIASTES AND THE "BURTHEN OF THE MYSTERY"; THE RECONFIGURING OF HOPE; CHAPTER 9: Stevens' anatomy; Bibliography; Index.