Reading Time in the Long Poem : : Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth / / Tess Somervell.

Reveals how long poems of the long eighteenth century articulate philosophies of time in both content and formProvides a new literary history of the long poem in English in the long eighteenth century, with incisive original readings of the representation of time in three important long poemsArgues...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations 3 black & white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I Milton
  • Chapter 1 His Prospect High: The Nunc Stans in Paradise Lost
  • Chapter 2 More than Delphic: Miltonic History and Hermeneutics
  • Chapter 3 A Full-grown Beauty: Reading Paradise Lost
  • Part II Thomson
  • Chapter 4 Shade Softening into Shade: Georgic Causation in The Seasons
  • Chapter 5 The Broken Scene: Thomson’s Tales
  • Chapter 6 Unforced Method: Reading The Seasons
  • Part III Wordsworth
  • Chapter 7 Years Flowed In Between: Chronos and Kairos in The Prelude
  • Chapter 8 Hung O’er the Deep: Wordsworth’s Allusions and Revisions
  • Chapter 9 A Feeling of the Whole: Reading The Prelude
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index