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The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens - Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity (Hardcover, New)
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The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens - Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity (Hardcover, New)
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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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