Coming of Age as a Poet
Coming of Age as a Poet

Author: Helen Vendler

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780674010246

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With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.

A Reader's Guide to John Milton
A Reader's Guide to John Milton

Author: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1998-02-01

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780815604969

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Marjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes.

The Orpheus Myth in Milton's “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”
The Orpheus Myth in Milton's “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”

Author: Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-06-11

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1527512983

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In this study of John Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”, the perspective of an interpreting sign serves as the basis for analysis of the poems’ allusions to the Orpheus myth. The idea of an interpretant proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce and the semiotic relations theorized by Jorgen Dines Johansen work as a lens that enables the reader to see the extent to which Milton recreated the Orpheus myth and used its recreating powers in his poems. Since the three poems have different and opposing voices, the Orpheus myth is the trigger behind the change of voices, as well as the modeling frame that underlies the transitions from an innocent to an enlightened viewpoint. Furthermore, readers in general and critics of all persuasions will have the chance to appreciate the presence of the Orpheus myth in Milton’s work as the fragmented configuration of consciousness in the process of defining two orders of existence: the human and the divine.