Milton's grand style

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"The sensitive delicacy of the style of Paradise Lost is not as universally acknowledged as its sublimity. This book shows how Milton's Grand Style creates what Bagehot called a 'haunting atmosphere of enhancing suggestions'. There was subtlety as well as strength in Milton's control of word-order, word-play, metaphor, simile, and allusion. Certainly Milton's earliest editors were as aware of his delicacy as of his grandeur, and this book draws on their fine criticism for both stimulus and warr…

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Full title :Milton's grand style / by Christopher Ricks.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:[2001], ©1963.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press
Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:[2001], ©1963.

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Description:154 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198120907, 9780198120902
oclc:ocn426352657
LC Classification:PR3562

1. The Milton Controversy -- 2. The Grand Style -- i. A Note on Rhythm and Music -- ii. Syntax and Sublimity -- iii. Syntax and Sense -- iv. The Unsuccessful Metaphor -- v. The Successful Metaphor -- vi. Word-Play -- vii. Postscript -- 3. Enhancing Suggestions -- i. Liquid Texture -- ii. Tincture or Reflection -- iii. Silent Yet Spake -- iv. Words, Actions All Infect -- 4. Simile And Cross-Reference.

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Chute de l'homme dans la littérature English language -- Early modern English language -- Style. -- Early mod… Fall of man in literature Literary style Milton, John Paradise lost (Milton, John)