Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth

Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9789004483781
ISBN-13 : 9004483780
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Book Synopsis Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth by : André Verbart

Download or read book Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth written by André Verbart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study examines the relationship of Milton's Adam and Eve, their different identities, and their different roles, and explicates the link between the nature of their relationship and the dramatic developments of the biblical story. The story is considered in the light of Milton's ethics as explicated and implicated in Paradise Lost, which are crucially different from the present-day ethics which we naturally tend to superimpose or take for granted. He makes use of two particular means of investigation. Firstly, the author provides a technical analysis of Milton's style, with an emphasis on verbal (often latinate) ambiguity and on a feature hitherto hardly described in Milton criticism, namely syntactical ambiguity, all yielding extra information. Secondly, on the basis of newly found verbal parallels between Milton's Christian epic and Vergil's Roman epic the Aeneid the author provides an analysis of the intended contrast between Milton's Adam and Eve and Vergil's Dido and Aeneas; on Milton's request, so to speak, the romance of Adam and Eve is put in the epic and Vergilian context. The author's observations on Milton's strategic use of the Aeneid as an antithetic frame of reference for his own Paradise Lost also leads to an investigation into a poem which in its turn uses Milton's Paradise Lost as an antithetic frame of reference, namely Wordsworth's Prelude.


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