Of paradise and light : essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in honor of Alan Rudrum
"Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum is a collection of fifteen essays that examine intertextual intersections in the works of Henry Vaughan and John Milton. The works of Vaughan and Milton have long been considered rich in antecedent texts or "pretexts." Neither Vaughan nor Milton attempt to hide the origins of their works. Their literary productions are not "original" in the modern sense but are a space upon which past voices are revealed and revised. To read a work by Vaughan or Milton is to be thrust repeatedly into other textual worlds. Their work demands the most active of readers, for we are both invited and compelled to establish the meaning that lies between the texts."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780874138764, 0874138760
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Introduction / Donald R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson
War cleavage : more force than fashion in Vaughan's Silex Scintillans / Jonathan Post
The "true, practic piety" of "holy writing" : Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Christoper Harvey and the Temple / Robert Wilcher
Milton's jarring allusions / John Leonard
Milton and the Index / Nigel Smith
Raphael, Diodati / Karen L. Edwards
Wilderness exercises : adversity, temptation and trial in Paradise Regained / N.H. Keeble
Biblical structures in Silex Scintillans : the poetics and politics of intertextuality / Holly Faith Nelson
Boethius and Henry Vaughan : the Consolatio translations of Olor Iscanus / Jonathan Nauman
The Mount of Olives : Vaughan's book of private prayer / Donald R. Dickson
Henry Vaughan, Orpheus & the empowerment of poetry / Peter Thomas
"Winged and free" : Henry Vaughan's Birds / Glyn Pursglove
Water, wood, and stone : the living earth in poems of Vaughan and Milton / Diane Kelsey McColley
Time and the word : a reading of Henry Vaughan's "The Search" / Matthias Bauer
Henry Vaughan's Poems of Mourning / Alan Rudrum
Lark, wild thyme, crowing cock, and waterfall : the natural, the moral, and the political in Blake's Milton and Vaughan's Silex Scintillans / June Sturrock