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001 2012011697
003 DLC
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008 120321s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012011697
020 $a9781107025400
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR509.B53$bW45 2012
082 00 $a821.009$223
084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWeinfield, Henry.
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.
263 $a1206
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
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 and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: blank-verse freethinking and its opponents; 1. 'In wand'ring mazes lost': skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave (Paradise Lost, Book 2); 2. 'With serpent error wand'ring found thir way': Milton's counterplot revisited (Paradise Lost, Book 7); 3. 'Man's mortality': Milton after Wordsworth (Paradise Lost, Book 10); 4. 'These beauteous forms': 'Tintern Abbey' and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis; 5. 'Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power': Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude; 6. 'Who shall save?' Shelley's quest for the Absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor; 7. Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems; 8. 'Of happy men that have the power to die': Tennyson's 'Tithonus'; 9. Stevens' anatomy; Bibliography.
650 0 $aBlank verse, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/25400/cover/9781107025400.jpg