Unpremeditated Verse: Feeling and Perception in Paradise Lost

by Wayne Shumaker

Book Overview

The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the reader's response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demonstrates the special resonance Milton gave to Paradise Lost through his development of its mythic quality and through the emotive patterns in the poem. Shumaker describes the effect on the reader's subconscious responses of Milton's choice of visual and auditory images. Underlying the treatment is an assumption...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691061343
• ISBN13: 9780691061344
• Release Date: November 1967
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 243 Pages