Why Milton Matters
Subtitle: A New Preface to His Writings
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 31, 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781403972293
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Milton, John, 1608-1674; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Milton, John,; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1608-1674; Criticism and interpretation
Description: A poet of the seventeenth century, Milton with his future gaze may prove to be (singularly among the triumvirate of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton) the poet for the new millenium - the poet for the twenty-first century. Milton will be so to the extent that through him we see the upheavals in the humanities as deriving not from a revision of the canon but rather, as Bill Readings insists in The University in Ruins from "a crisis in the function of the canon" and, then, to the extent that Milton shocks us into the recognition that poets sometimes deliver messages at odds with those with which they are credited. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Reading Milton : the death and survival of the author; title: Horizons of expectations : repressions, receptions, and the politics of Milton's last poems; title: Questioning and critique : the formation of a new Milton criticism