Milton's Epics and the Book of Psalms /
The Psalms were of intense interest to Milton, who read them not only as impassioned voices conveying significant moments in life's journey, but also as examples of various genres, each containing rhetorical and poetical conventions appropriate to the expressive intent of the speaker. In this b...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1989]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: How Milton Read the Book of Psalms: His Formal, Stylistic, and Thematic Analysis
- ONE. "Where God is prais'd aright": Psalm Themes
- TWO. "With Hymns, our Psalms ... our Hebrew Songs and Harps": Psalm Genres
- INTERCHAPTER. "Sion's songs, to all true tasts excelling"
- THREE. "Smit with the love of sacred Song": Psalm Genres
- FOUR. "Light ... from the Fountain of light": Psalm Themes
- CONCLUSION
- WORKS CONSULTED
- INDEX.