This is the first monograph-length study of the importance of
Orpheus in Milton's conception of himself as an agonistic poet. It
is one of the first monographs on Milton to make sustained use of
Bakhtinian theory, specifically its concepts of author, hero and
answerability. Without excluding a range of important classical
sources, such as Statius's Birthday Ode to Lucan, this study
argues-singularly in recent criticism-for the significant influence
of Virgil. In Milton's writing (from prose to poetry), Orpheus
functions as one of a number of heroes (masks, personae) by whom
Milton creates an identity for himself as author. Orpheus in
particular offers Milton a model (reflection) of the poet who
fails, and yet turns that failure into a sign of his own identity
as the faithful singer, the civilizer of men.>
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