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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Havens, Raymond Dexter, 1880-1954. Influence of Milton on English poetry. New York : Russell & Russell, 1961, ©1922 (OCoLC)568762656 |
Named Person: | John Milton; John Milton; John Milton; John Milton; John Milton; John Milton; John Milton; John Milton |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Raymond Dexter Havens |
OCLC Number: | 360221 |
Description: | xii, 722 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part I: The attitude of the eighteenth century towards Milton -- Milton's fame in the eighteenth century -- Blank verse and rime -- Prosody and diction -- Part II: The influence of Paradise Lost -- The characteristics of Paradise Lost and their relation to eighteenth-century blank verse -- The influence before Thomson, 1667-1726 -- Thomson -- Young -- Cowper -- Wordsworth -- Keats -- The influence outside of blank verse: Ossian, Blake, Shelley, Byron -- The influence of Paradise Lost as shown in the more important types of blank-verse poetry -- Meditative and descriptive poetry -- Epic and burlesque poetry -- Translations of the classics -- Technical treatises in verse -- Philosophical and religious poetry -- Part III: The shorter poems -- Late vogue of the shorter poems -- The influence of L'allegro and Il Penseroso -- Milton and the sonnet, with a history of the sonnet in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- The influence of the remaining poems -- Lycidas -- Comus and Samson Agonistes -- The translation from Horace -- The nativity -- Appendices -- Parallel passages, showing expressions probably borrowed from Milton -- Poems in non-Miltonic blank verse, 1667-1750 -- Loco-descriptive poems not known to be Miltonic -- Rimed technical treatises -- Bibliographies. |
Responsibility: | by Raymond Dexter Havens. |
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