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The Miltonic Setting: Past & Present

E.M.W. Tillyard

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IN HIS Milton, Dr Tillyard was forced, for reasons of space, to keep close to Milton's text. The Miltonic Setting supplements Milton in some of the matters which had there to be excluded. Its eight sections compose a sigle work in that they all serve to attach Milton to his own age or to justify him to ours. Thus the important essay on L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, embodying original conclusions at which Dr. Tillyard had not yet arrived in Milton, detacdhes these poems from their traditional setting at Horton and attaches them to Milton's life at Cambridge. The last and longest section, 'Milton and the Epic', throws new light on the way the poet came, after many years, to choose the Fall of Man for his theme; it also outlines a new conception of epic development in England from the Middle Ages to Pope. Other sections relate Milton to contemporary Baroque art and contemporary Protestantism. In dealing with Milton's modern setting Dr. Tillyard defends him against several recent detractors; and The Miltonic Setting is thus an indispensable supplement to his earlier book.

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Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1938

The Miltonic Setting: Past & Present

E.M.W. Tillyard

0/5 ( ratings)

IN HIS Milton, Dr Tillyard was forced, for reasons of space, to keep close to Milton's text. The Miltonic Setting supplements Milton in some of the matters which had there to be excluded. Its eight sections compose a sigle work in that they all serve to attach Milton to his own age or to justify him to ours. Thus the important essay on L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, embodying original conclusions at which Dr. Tillyard had not yet arrived in Milton, detacdhes these poems from their traditional setting at Horton and attaches them to Milton's life at Cambridge. The last and longest section, 'Milton and the Epic', throws new light on the way the poet came, after many years, to choose the Fall of Man for his theme; it also outlines a new conception of epic development in England from the Middle Ages to Pope. Other sections relate Milton to contemporary Baroque art and contemporary Protestantism. In dealing with Milton's modern setting Dr. Tillyard defends him against several recent detractors; and The Miltonic Setting is thus an indispensable supplement to his earlier book.

[Taken from inside the dust jacket]

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1938

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