Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and
images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who
wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual
Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary,
Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes
astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery -
traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic's narrative
while expressing the author's heterodox beliefs. In particular,
Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the
inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate
seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton's material
philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and
cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our
understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton's
epic.
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