Milton and the Culture of ViolenceIn this powerful work of criticism, Lieb explores the culture of violence--shaped by myth as well as historical circumstance--that colors Milton's outlook and permeates his art. In Lieb's view, a central image in Milton's writings is the specter of sparagmos, or bodily mutilation and dismemberment. Tracing this image across Milton's entire career, Lieb offers authoritative new readings of Areopagitica, A Mask, Lycidas, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Lost, as well as of lesser-known works. |
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... Poem Nearly Anonymous , " and Stanley Fish , “ Lycidas : A Poem Finally Anonymous , " both anthologized in Milton's " Lycidas " : The Tradition and the Poem , 2d ed . , ed . C. A. Patrides ( Columbia : University of Missouri Press ...
... Poem Nearly Anonymous , " and Stanley Fish , “ Lycidas : A Poem Finally Anonymous , " both anthologized in Milton's " Lycidas " : The Tradition and the Poem , 2d ed . , ed . C. A. Patrides ( Columbia : University of Missouri Press ...
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... poem is of primary concern , I address the first as preparatory to the second . Titled MAGNO SALMASIO Pro Defensione Regia Ode Eucharistica ( " To Great Salmasius , for the ... poetic enactment that the final poem of 168 Staging the Body.
... poem is of primary concern , I address the first as preparatory to the second . Titled MAGNO SALMASIO Pro Defensione Regia Ode Eucharistica ( " To Great Salmasius , for the ... poetic enactment that the final poem of 168 Staging the Body.
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... poem likewise encodes . This approach should provide crucial insight into the sparagmatic outlook that informs and in fact determines the action of Milton's Samson Agonistes . As I discussed earlier , the MAGNO SALMASIO is a poem in ...
... poem likewise encodes . This approach should provide crucial insight into the sparagmatic outlook that informs and in fact determines the action of Milton's Samson Agonistes . As I discussed earlier , the MAGNO SALMASIO is a poem in ...
Contents
The Slaughter of the Saints | 13 |
The Fate of the Poet | 38 |
The Dismemberment of Orpheus | 59 |
Copyright | |
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