Milton and the ineffable [electronic resource] /
by Reisner, Noam.
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BookSeries: Oxford English monographs: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 1 online resource (xii, 321 p.).ISBN: 9780191721892 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation | Ineffable, The, in literature | English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Situating Milton's poetics of ineffability in the context of the intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology, this text reassesses Milton's poetry in light of the literary and conceptual problems posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation.
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"This book has its remote origins in my doctoral thesis (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2005)"--Acknowledgements.
Situating Milton's poetics of ineffability in the context of the intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology, this text reassesses Milton's poetry in light of the literary and conceptual problems posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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