Milton and Homer : "written to aftertimes" /

"Explores the various ways in which Homer's epic poems influenced Milton in his own ambition to compose an enduring, canonical work of literature. Machacek's study of this major interpoetic relationship is methodologically responsive to the historicist critical enterprise dominant wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Machacek, Gregory
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2011]
Series:	Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Subjects:	Homer > Influence. Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Sources. Milton, John, > 1608-1674. > Paradise lost. Intertextuality. English poetry > Greek influences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"By allusion called" : diachronic and synchronic intertextuality
"Dire example" : the war in Heaven as admonitory exemplum
"A fabric wonderful" : the marvelous and verisimilar in Milton's Christian epic
"From the first" : conceptions of origins and their consequences
"Above th'Aonian mount" : the Longinian sublime in Paradise lost
"Instruct me" : institutional considerations in Milton's evolving literary ambitions.