Unpremeditated Verse : : Feeling and Perception in Paradise Lost / / Wayne Shumaker.

The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the reader's response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demonstrates the special resonance Milton gave to Paradise Lost through his development of its mythic quality and through the emotive patterns in t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1967
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1942
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER I. PARADISE LOST AS MYTH
  • CHAPTER II. THE NARRATIVE PLAN
  • CHAPTER III. THREE EXAMPLES OF AFFECTIVE TONALITY
  • CHAPTER IV. ANIMISM : THE EPIC WORLD AS SENTIENT
  • CHAPTER V. SYNECDOCHE AND METONYMY
  • CHAPTER VI. VISUAL PERCEPTION
  • CHAPTER VII. AUDITORY PERCEPTION
  • CHAPTER VIII. SOMATIC PERCEPTION
  • CHAPTER IX. AFFECT AND PERCEPT ON THE MOUNT OF SPECULATION
  • INDEX