Milton's Epics and the Book of Psalms / / Mary Ann Radzinowicz.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: How Milton Read the Book of Psalms: His Formal, Stylistic, and Thematic Analysis
- PART I. Paradise Regained
- 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"
- PART II. Paradise Lost
- THREE. "Smit with the love of sacred Song": Psalm Genres
- FOUR. "Light . . . from the Fountain of light": Psalm Themes
- CONCLUSION
- WORKS CONSULTED
- INDEX