Milton's languages : the impact of multilingualism on style /

Milton's poetry is one of the glories of the English language, and yet it owes everything to Milton's widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five. In Milton's Languages, John K. Hale first examines Milton's language-related arts i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hale, John K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Literary style.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Knowledge > Language and languages.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Style.
Multilingualism > England.
Multilinguisme > Angleterre.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English language > Early modern > Style.
Language and languages.
Multilingualism.
Literary style.
Meertaligheid.
Stijlen.
Bellettrie.
Engels.
England.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Milton's languages in the context of renaissance multilingualism
  • pt. 1. Milton's Exercising of His Languages. 1. The multilingual self presented in Milton's Poems, 1645. 2. The development and quality of Milton's multilingual verse. 3. The Italian journey (1638-9) and language-choice. 4. Milton's arts of language: translating and philology. 5. Milton's Latin prose
  • Conclusion to part one: multilingualism in Milton's Latin prose
  • pt. 2. Multilingualism and the Major English Poems. 6. Latin and Milton's other languages in the style of Paradise Lost. 7. Milton's languages and the voices of Paradise Lost. 8. Multilingualism and epic. 9. Multilingualism and the style of temperance in Paradise Regained. 10. Hebrew meets Greek in Samson Agonistes. 11. The impact of Milton's languages upon his mature English verse styles
  • Appendix. translating Milton's Latin poems into English.

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