The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens: Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity

Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking, used it to explore change and confront modernity, sometimes in unexpectedly radical ways. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens. He traces the philosophical and psychological struggles underlying these poets' choice of form and genre, and the extent to which their work is marked, consciously or not, by the influence of other poets. Unusually attuned to echoes between poems, this study sheds new light on how important poetic texts, most of which are central to the literary canon, unfold as works of art.
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An aparitie	2015
Autor	Professor Henry Weinfield
Dimensiuni	15.2 x 1.4 x 22.9 cm
Editura	Cambridge University Press
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9781107507838
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	266