Transported styles in Shakespeare and Milton
By: Harold Toliver.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: Beginning with the distinctions between rhetoric and poetry, Harold Toliver examines the interplay of functional speech, assigned the task of moving plots, and poetry's sublime transport to hypothetical or second worlds and their implicit criticism of the worldly possible. The dramatist who works toward a conservative reinstatement of social order is sometimes at odds with the poetic visionary. Juxtaposing Shakespeare and Milton on that matter helps situate them within their respective Elizabethan and Puritan outlooks. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [259]-271.
Includes index.