The Victorian period was a golden age for the study of Milton.
Yet the influence of Milton on poetry, and on literature more
generally, during the period is often obscure. Victorian writers
rarely display the overt, self-conscious engagement with Milton
that typified so much Romantic writing earlier in the nineteenth
century. In Milton and the Victorians, Erik Gray argues that this
shift represents not a breach but an expansion: if Milton's
influence seems less remarkable than before, it is due not to his
absence but to his pervasiveness.
Through detailed consideration of works by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, and
George Eliot, Gray shows how Victorian writers tended to draw upon
the less sublime, more understated elements of Milton's writings.
In tracing the characteristically oblique influence of Milton on
Victorian authors, Gray also draws attention to important aspects
of Milton's own work, notably the way it often depicts power being
exerted indirectly. Gray thus proposes new and nuanced models of
literary relations, while offering original and elegant readings
both of Milton's poetry and of major works of Victorian
literature.
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