Living Texts: Interpreting MiltonKristin A. Pruitt, Charles Durham, Charles W. Durham The essays in this collection are a testimony to Milton's claim that books doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are. They are proof that Milton's progeny, whether poetry or prose, continue to inspire readers to investigate and interpret, and that even the poet himself is at times the subject of scrutiny. Although these essays examine issues as widely diverse as the reliability of Adam's narration to Raphael and the portrayal of chaos in Paradise Lost to the poet's role as an object of erotic attention in the nineteenth century, all suggest that Milton's are still living texts. |
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Page 68
... reader sees in Mary's report of what she sees is a poet gazing upon an ideal fantasy of his own cre- ation . Through Mary's diary entry , the reader gazes not upon the poet but upon the poet's gazing . Thus we see Milton becoming a poet ...
... reader sees in Mary's report of what she sees is a poet gazing upon an ideal fantasy of his own cre- ation . Through Mary's diary entry , the reader gazes not upon the poet but upon the poet's gazing . Thus we see Milton becoming a poet ...
Page 161
... Reader in " Paradise Lost " ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1967 ) , i.e. , that it is the reader who undergoes a similar kind of divine education . It would appear on the sur- face , at least , that Fish ...
... Reader in " Paradise Lost " ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1967 ) , i.e. , that it is the reader who undergoes a similar kind of divine education . It would appear on the sur- face , at least , that Fish ...
Page 170
... readers to " gather " the same verses when working with the root . Yet , the process of working on that root , or reading the dictionary , sets up many potential verses to be gathered . Any one reader will focus on different ...
... readers to " gather " the same verses when working with the root . Yet , the process of working on that root , or reading the dictionary , sets up many potential verses to be gathered . Any one reader will focus on different ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Afterthoughts on Adams Story | 48 |
Cesarean Section and the Birth | 80 |
Copyright | |
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