The Poetry of John Milton / / Gordon Teskey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Teskey, Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Transcendence -- 1. On the Early Poems -- 2. On “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” -- 3. On the Work Not Called Comus -- 4. On Engagement in A Masque -- 5. On “Lycidas” as Primitive Art -- Part II: Engagement -- 6. On the Interstitial Latin Poems and an English Fragment -- 7. On the Sonnets and Shorter Poems of the Political Period -- 8. On the Romantics and the Principles of Milton -- Part III: Transcendental Engagement -- 9. On History in Paradise Lost -- 10. On the Origin in Paradise Lost -- 11. On the Verse of Paradise Lost -- 12. On the Sublime in Paradise Lost -- 13. On Temptation in Paradise Lost -- 14. On the End in Paradise Lost -- 15. On Late Style in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes -- Appendix I: References and Texts -- Appendix II: Chronology of the Poems -- Notes -- Index