Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum

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Donald R. Dickson, Holly Faith Nelson
University of Delaware Press, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 393 pages
This collection examines intertextual intersections in the works of Henry Vaughan and John Milton and considers their aesthetic, philosophical, or political implications. The theoretical pluralism of the volume reveals the variety and complexity of textual relations in the words of these early modern authors. Some of the essays focus on the author's conscious creation of intertext, others explore the reader's negotiation of books within books, while still others examine the linguistic effect of textual intersections. The essays not only consider material borrowing, but also explore the absorption of concepts or formal structures from antecedent texts. The volume not only adds to the debate on Milton's iteration, duplication, and renovation of precursor texts, but represents the first collection of original essays on the poetry and prose of Henry Vaughan, essays authored by experts in the field. Donald Dickson is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Holly Faith Nelson is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity Western University.

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Contents

List of Illustrations
7
More Force than Fashion
25
Henry
50
Miltons Jarring Allusions
71
Milton and the Index
101
Raphael Diodati
123
Adversity Temptation and Trial
142
The Poetics
165
Henry Vaughan Orpheus and The Empowerment
218
Henry Vaughans Birds
250
The Living Earth in Poems
269
A Reading of Henry Vaughans
292
Henry Vaughans Poems of Mourning
309
Principal Publications of Alan Rudrum
351
DONALD R DICKSON
377
Copyright

The Consolatio
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