Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Classical Presences) 1st Edition

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Classical Presences) 1st Edition – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198875963, 0198875967

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• ISBN-10: 0198875967
• ISBN-13: 9780198875963
• Author: Thomas Matthew Vozar

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton’s sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the sublime, a concept that only took shape in the decades after his death with the advent of philosophical aesthetics. Such a narrative, however, fails to account for the fact that Milton is one of the first writers in English to refer to Longinus, the author traditionally associated with the Ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime. This book argues that Milton did have an idea of the sublime—one that came to him from Longinus but also from a larger classical tradition that offered a pre-aesthetic predecessor to the aesthetic concept of the sublime.

Table contents:

1. The Sublime from Antiquity to the Renaissance

2. Milton and the “Stile of Lofty”

3. Sublime Physics in Paradise Lost

4. Milton and the Theological Sublime

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