{"product_id":"the-blank-verse-tradition-from-milton-to-stevens-freethinking-and-the-crisis-of-modernity-hardback-9781107025400","title":"The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens; Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity (Hardback) 9781107025400","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFreethinking and the Crisis of Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA detailed study of Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of blank verse.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenry Weinfield (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107025400, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 June 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The very real pleasures of this book are to be found in its resourceful and sensitive readings of very great poems.' Gordon Teskey, Modern Philology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBlank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking, used it to explore change and confront modernity, sometimes in unexpectedly radical ways. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens. He traces the philosophical and psychological struggles underlying these poets' choice of form and genre, and the extent to which their work is marked, consciously or not, by the influence of other poets. Unusually attuned to echoes between poems, this study sheds new light on how important poetic texts, most of which are central to the literary canon, unfold as works of art.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: blank-verse freethinking and its opponents\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'In wand'ring mazes lost': skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave (Paradise Lost, Book 2)\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'With serpent error wand'ring found thir way': Milton's counterplot revisited (Paradise Lost, Book 7)\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Man's mortality': Milton after Wordsworth (Paradise Lost, Book 10)\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'These beauteous forms': 'Tintern Abbey' and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power': Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Who shall save?' Shelley's quest for the Absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor\u003cbr\u003e 7. Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Of happy men that have the power to die': Tennyson's 'Tithonus'\u003cbr\u003e 9. Stevens' anatomy\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004893876504,"sku":"9781107025400","price":89.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107025400i_5946e8a3-ff49-4a23-afd3-584522e2e125.jpg?v=1691361195","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-blank-verse-tradition-from-milton-to-stevens-freethinking-and-the-crisis-of-modernity-hardback-9781107025400","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}