The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading against the Grain

By Jonathon Shears

Book Overview

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Shears devotes a chapter to each of the six major Romantics, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton's Paradise Lost within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts. Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754662535
• ISBN13: 9780754662532
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"