Professor Henry Weinfield: 1 book
The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking,...
