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Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost, by William M Porter Hardback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Clean pages with a tight binding. Please view all pictures for the overall condition.”
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- University of Nebraska Press
- Item Height
- 9 inches
- ISBN-10
- 0803237065
- ISBN
- 9780803237063
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803237065
ISBN-13
9780803237063
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1084504
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost
Number of Pages
222 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
General, Poetry, Semiotics & Theory
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-024241
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
821.4
Synopsis
Milton's early commentators--Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others--not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere "background." As a consequence, William M. Porter argues, not only is the foundational dimension of Milton's poetry now hardly visible, even to scholars, but the potential of Milton's poetry to revitalize the reading of the classics has been diminished. In this insightful study, Porter attempts once again to read both the classics and Milton's epic poem sensitively and intelligently. He exposes the recklessly speculative and tendentious character of much earlier work on Milton's allusions, in which allusions were promiscuously posited and in which Paradise Lost was too often regarded naively as triumphing over the classics. Porter demonstrates that Milton's allusions, in which allusions to the classics, while fewer than has been supposed, are rich with wit, irony, and thought that can be grasped only by a reader with a double perspective.
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