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- catalog abstract "In Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser, John M. Steadman examines how Milton and Spenser - and Renaissance poets in general - applied their art toward the depiction of moral and historical "truth." Steadman centers his study on the various poetic techniques of illusion that these poets employed in their effort to bridge the gap between truth and imaginative fiction. Emphasizing the significant affinities and the crucial differences between the seventeenth-century heroic poet and his sixteenth-century "original," Steadman analyzes the diverse ways in which Milton and Spenser exploited traditional invocation formulas and the commonplaces of the poet's divine imagination. Steadman suggests that these poets, along with most other Renaissance poets, did not actually regard themselves as divinely inspired but, rather, resorted to a common fiction to create the appearance of having special insight into the truth. The first section of this study traces the persona of the inspired poet in DuBartas's La Sepmaine and in The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. Reevaluating the views of twentieth-century critics, it emphasizes the priority of conscious fiction over autobiographical "fact" in these poets' adaptations of this topos. The second section develops the contrast between the two principal heroic poems of the English Renaissance, The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, in terms of the contrasting aesthetic principles underlying the romance genre and the neoclassical epic.".
- catalog contributor b8242163.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "In Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser, John M. Steadman examines how Milton and Spenser - and Renaissance poets in general - applied their art toward the depiction of moral and historical "truth." Steadman centers his study on the various poetic techniques of illusion that these poets employed in their effort to bridge the gap between truth and imaginative fiction. Emphasizing the significant affinities and the crucial differences between the seventeenth-century heroic poet and his sixteenth-century "original," Steadman analyzes the diverse ways in which Milton and Spenser exploited traditional invocation formulas and the commonplaces of the poet's divine imagination. Steadman suggests that these poets, along with most other Renaissance poets, did not actually regard themselves as divinely inspired but, rather, resorted to a common fiction to create the appearance of having special insight into the truth. The first section of this study traces the persona of the inspired poet in DuBartas's La Sepmaine and in The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. Reevaluating the views of twentieth-century critics, it emphasizes the priority of conscious fiction over autobiographical "fact" in these poets' adaptations of this topos. The second section develops the contrast between the two principal heroic poems of the English Renaissance, The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, in terms of the contrasting aesthetic principles underlying the romance genre and the neoclassical epic.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I: "Bardic voices"? moral vision and the persona of the poet: a revaluation -- Enthousiasmos and the persona of the inspired poet: DuBartas and Spenser -- Enthousiasmos and the persona of the inspired poet: Milton -- Part II: Poetic structure and moral vision -- Determinate and indeterminate structures: epic and romance -- Dissolution and restructuring: space and time in The faerie queene -- Spenser's icon of the past: fiction as history, a reexamination -- The "Platonic telescope": narrative and moral focus in The faerie queene -- Moral fiction in Milton's epic plot.".
- catalog extent "200 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Moral fiction in Milton and Spenser.".
- catalog identifier "0826210171 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Moral fiction in Milton and Spenser.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Moral fiction in Milton and Spenser.".
- catalog subject "821/.309 20".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Epic poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Ethics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674 Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Moral conditions in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR3592.E8 S84 1995".
- catalog subject "Poetics History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Poetics History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Poetics.".
- catalog subject "Romances, English Adaptations History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: "Bardic voices"? moral vision and the persona of the poet: a revaluation -- Enthousiasmos and the persona of the inspired poet: DuBartas and Spenser -- Enthousiasmos and the persona of the inspired poet: Milton -- Part II: Poetic structure and moral vision -- Determinate and indeterminate structures: epic and romance -- Dissolution and restructuring: space and time in The faerie queene -- Spenser's icon of the past: fiction as history, a reexamination -- The "Platonic telescope": narrative and moral focus in The faerie queene -- Moral fiction in Milton's epic plot.".
- catalog title "Moral fiction in Milton and Spenser / John M. Steadman.".
- catalog type "Adaptations. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".