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Milton and the Ineffable (Hardcover, New)
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Milton and the Ineffable (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Milton and the Ineffable offers a comprehensive reassessment of
Milton's poetic oeuvre in light of the literary and conceptual
problem posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is
unsayable and beyond representation. The struggle with the
ineffability of sacred or transcendental subject matter in many
ways defines Milton's triumphs as a poet, especially in Paradise
Lost, and goes to the heart of the central critical debates to
engage his readers over the centuries and decades. Taking an
interdisciplinary conceptual approach, this study sheds fresh light
on many of these debates by situating Milton's poetics of
ineffability in the context of the intellectual cross-currents of
Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology. The book plots an
ongoing narrative in Milton's poetry about silence and ineffable
mystery which forms the intellectual framework within which Milton
continually shapes and reshapes his poetic vision of the created
universe and the elect man's singular place within it. From the
free paraphrase of Psalm 114 to Paradise Regained, the presence of
the ineffable insinuates itself into Milton's poetry as both the
catalyst and check for his poetic creativity, where the fear of
silence and ineffable mystery on the one hand, and the yearning to
lose himself and his readers in unspeakable rapture on the other,
becomes a struggle for poetic self-determination and finally
redemption.
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