Poetic Form in Blake's Milton

by Susan Fox

Book Overview

Blake's two finished epics have been widely regarded as combinations of brilliant set pieces which yield to no systematic rhetorical criticism. Susan Fox contests this view, discovering in Milton an elaborate verbal structure that is fully congruent with the poem's philosophy. She has made the first full exposition of the formal principles of a late Blake poem, and it suggests that the late prophecies are as profound in their artistic structures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691617074
• ISBN13: 9780691617077
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"