John Milton's Epic Invocations: Converting the MusePeter Lang, 2000 - 159 Seiten A crisis over the function and identity of the Muse occurred in seventeenth-century religious poetry: How could Christian writers use a pagan device? Using rhetorical analysis, Phillips examines epic invocations in order to show how this crisis was eventually reconciled in the works of John Milton. While predecessors such as Abraham Cowley and Guillaume du Bartas either rejected the pagan Muses outright or attempted to Christianize them, Milton invoked the inspirational power of the Muses throughout his poetic career. In Paradise Lost, Milton confronts the tension between his Muse's «name» and «meaning». While never fully rejecting the Muse's pagan past, Milton's four proems (PL I, III, VII, and IX) increasingly emphasize the muse's Christian «meaning» over her pagan «name». Ultimately, Milton's syncretic blending of pagan and Christian conventions restores vitality and resonance to the literary trope of the muse. |
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... England's national origin and self - definition . In sixteenth- and seventeenth - century England , epic poetry was viewed both as the highest poetic genre and the proper medium for the expression of a culture's virtues , and any poet ...
... England's national origin and self - definition . In sixteenth- and seventeenth - century England , epic poetry was viewed both as the highest poetic genre and the proper medium for the expression of a culture's virtues , and any poet ...
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... England . Relying upon his own memory , not that of the Muse's , he searches back to England's more golden periods of history when such shameful rebellions did not occur . While on the one hand Cowley compares contemporary England to a ...
... England . Relying upon his own memory , not that of the Muse's , he searches back to England's more golden periods of history when such shameful rebellions did not occur . While on the one hand Cowley compares contemporary England to a ...
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... England . Because the people of England are turning against each other , England is in a poor state : " But now alas we strive , / Our own , our own good Soveraign to Captive ! " Cowley's use of repetition here marks the poet's ...
... England . Because the people of England are turning against each other , England is in a poor state : " But now alas we strive , / Our own , our own good Soveraign to Captive ! " Cowley's use of repetition here marks the poet's ...
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Abraham Cowley Aeneas Aeneid Arethuse argues assert Bartas Bartas's beginning biblical Book Brutus calls Cambridge Christ Christian Muse classical Clio Comus conventions Crashaw David Davideis death Diodati divine inspiration English epic invocations epic poet epic poetry Epitaphium Damonis Erato genre God's goddess grief Heav'nly Muse heaven heavenly heroic Hesiod History of Britain Homer hymn Ibid Il Penseroso Iliad invocations in Paradise invokes the Muse John Milton King L'Allegro lament Late Civil literary Lucan Lycidas Lycidas and Epitaphium Melancholy Milton Milton's early Milton's Epic Milton's invocation Milton's Muse Mirth Muse's narrative Nativity Ode Nuttall origins Oxford pagan pagan gods pagan Muse Paradise Lost pastoral elegy Penseroso Pindar poem poet's poetic inspiration praise prayer present proem Psalms rejection relationship religious Renaissance reveals rhetorical Sabrina seventeenth-century sing song source of inspiration suggests thee theme Theocritus thou tradition Translation by Hughes University Press Urania vates Vergil verse vocation voice write