Henry Weinfield

The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of blank verse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025400
• ISBN-10: 1107025400
• Artikelnr.: 35408064

Autorenporträt

Henry Weinfield is a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: blank-verse freethinking and its opponents
1. 'In wand'ring mazes lost': skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave (Paradise Lost, Book 2)
2. 'With serpent error wand'ring found thir way': Milton's counterplot revisited (Paradise Lost, Book 7)
3. 'Man's mortality': Milton after Wordsworth (Paradise Lost, Book 10)
4. 'These beauteous forms': 'Tintern Abbey' and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis
5. 'Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power': Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude
6. 'Who shall save?' Shelley's quest for the Absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor
7. Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems
8. 'Of happy men that have the power to die': Tennyson's 'Tithonus'
9. Stevens' anatomy
Bibliography.