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100 1 $aWeinfield, Henry,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens :$bfreethinking and the crisis of modernity /$cHenry Weinfield, University of Notre Dame.
260 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $ax, 254 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $a"Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking, used it to explore change and confront modernity, sometimes in unexpectedly radical ways. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens. He traces the philosophical and psychological struggles underlying these poets' choice of form and genre, and the extent to which their work is marked, consciously or not, by the influence of other poets. Unusually attuned to echoes between poems, this study sheds new light on how important poetic texts, most of which are central to the literary canon, unfold as works of art"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: blank-verse freethinking and its opponents -- '"In wand'ring mazes lost": skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave -- "With serpent error wand'ring found thir way": Milton's counterplot revisited -- "Man's mortality": Milton after Wordsworth -- "These beauteous forms": 'Tintern Abbey' and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis --"Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power": Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude-- "Who shall save?: Shelley's quest for the absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor-- Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems -- "'Of happy men that have the power to die": Tennyson's 'Tithonus' -- Stevens' anatomy.
650 0 $aBlank verse, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
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