Lyrics

Lyrics
Author: John Milton
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Total Pages: 204
Release: 1917
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Lyric Apocalypse

Lyric Apocalypse
Author: Ryan Netzley
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823263487

What’s new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new. John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change in the present. In this respect they take seriously the Reformation’s insistence that eschatology is a historical phenomenon. Yet these poets are also reacting to the Regicide, and, as a result, their works explore very modern questions about the nature of events, what it means for a significant historical occasion to happen. Lyric Apocalypse argues that Milton’s and Marvell’s lyrics challenge any retrospective understanding of events, including one built on a theory of revolution. Instead, these poems show that there is no “after” to the apocalypse, that if we are going to talk about change, we should do so in the present, when there is still time to do something about it. For both of these poets, lyric becomes a way to imagine an apocalyptic event that would be both hopeful and new.

Milton in the Long Restoration

Milton in the Long Restoration
Author: Blair Hoxby
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198769776

"Explores Milton's relationship to his contemporaries and early eighteenth-century heirs, demonstrating that some of Milton's earliest readers were more perceptive than Romantic and twentieth-century interpreters"--Publisher.

The Cambridge Companion to Milton

The Cambridge Companion to Milton
Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1999-07-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521655439

Introduces readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it.

The English Lyric Tradition

The English Lyric Tradition
Author: R. James Goldstein
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476664757

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression. This readers' guide introduces to a 21st century audience some of the greatest masterpieces of English poetry spanning five centuries. Focusing on poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and others, the author discusses the development of poetic technique, explains the rhetorical culture of earlier centuries and describes the various lyric forms--including lover's complaints, sonnets and elegies--that poets used to communicate with readers.