Delirious Milton : The Fate of the Poet in Modernity / Gordon Teskey.

9780674044302

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]

©2006

English

In English.

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10.4159/9780674044302 doi

PR3592.A34 T47 2006

HK 2575

821/.4

The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective, the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective, the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world.

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