Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude

by Peter C. Herman

Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In "Paradise Lost," Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem that refuses to grant the reader any interpretive stability or certainty. While "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes" reflect Milton's deep ambivalences after the collapse of the Republic. Far from confirming his earlier ideals, in his later poetry,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396761X
• ISBN13: 9781403967619
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"