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The Harmonious Vision
Don Cameron Allen
其他書名
Studies in Milton's Poetry
出版Johns Hopkins Press, 1970
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN08018119109780801811913
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HyVbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"The Renaissance traded in analogy, and one of its favorite illusions was that of God as poet whose poem is the world and, the correspondingly, the poet as god whose poetry offers a new world of his making. Professor Allen contends, however, that Milton detached himself from this view and returned to the more ancient tradition of 'divine inspiration,' which held that the poet cannot be a god, for God himself is the source of all human song. One of the central concerns that engaged John Milton's poetic imagination was the vision given to man when he had put his own inner music in harmony with that of God. In The Harmonious Vision Professor Allen uses this theme as a means of explicating Milton's poetry and of understanding his artistic intent. As the author leads the readers through Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "Lycidas," Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, he shows the development both of Milton as a poet and of the idea of the harmonious vision in the poetry itself. A new essay on the use of light metaphor in 'Paradise Lost', as well as a new preface by the author, has been added to the six essays which comprise the original edition of the book." - Don Cameron Allen.