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Regaining Paradise
Milton and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Griffin Dustin
This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the eighteenth century.
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Publication date: 04-2009
312 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Paperback
312 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Paperback
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This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the eighteenth century. It refutes the old argument about Milton's allegedly 'bad influence' and challenges suggestions that great writers generally inhibit or oppress their successors. Regaining Paradise argues that what interested eighteenth-century poets was primarily Milton's garden myth and that the best writers typically found Milton, not a burden, but an inspiring resources available for their appropriation. Regaining Paradise cuts across some of the boundaries that traditionally divide English studies. It looks at Milton not in a Renaissance but an eighteenth-century context and it combines the perspectives of literary history and literary theory.
Preface; Introduction; Part I. England's Milton: 1. Milton's politics; 2. Milton's moral idealism; 3. Milton as literary hero; Part II. After Milton: literary possibilities: 4. The traditional genres; 5. Adaptations: re-making Milton; 6. New genres; 7. Regaining paradise; Part III. The Major Writers: 8. Dryden; 9. Pope; 10. Thomson; 11. Johnson; 12. Cowper; Afterword: notes toward an eighteenth century theory of literary influence; Notes; Index.
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