The Poetry of John Milton
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | Gordon Teskey | ISBN: | 9780674286764 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | June 15, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gordon Teskey |
| ISBN: | 9780674286764 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | June 15, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton’s aesthetic joins beauty to truth and value to ethics and how he rediscovers the art of poetry as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be.
For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton’s aesthetic joins beauty to truth and value to ethics and how he rediscovers the art of poetry as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be.
