Orpheus Dis(re)membered: Milton and the Myth of the Poet-HeroThis is the first monograph-length study of the importance of Orpheus in Milton's conception of himself as an agonistic poet. It is one of the first monographs on Milton to make sustained use of Bakhtinian theory, specifically its concepts of author, hero and answerability. Without excluding a range of important classical sources, such as Statius's Birthday Ode to Lucan, this study argues-singularly in recent criticism-for the significant influence of Virgil. In Milton's writing (from prose to poetry), Orpheus functions as one of a number of heroes (masks, personae) by whom Milton creates an identity for himself as author. Orpheus in particular offers Milton a model (reflection) of the poet who fails, and yet turns that failure into a sign of his own identity as the faithful singer, the civilizer of men. |
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... Ovid is only possible via a significant omission , which Sandys excuses in a marginal note on his translation , ' not ... Ovid's account of the poet first in Hades , and then in Thrace . In the first lyric , Orpheus mourns Eurydice , a ...
... Ovid's narrative in fact heightens this contradiction . The fable , he concludes , invites us to a moderation in our desires , least we loose what we affect by too much affecting : Hell , the Furies , and infernall torments , being no ...
... Ovid's Metamorphoses : The Arthur Golding Translation , 1567 ( London , 1965 ) . 18. See Pausanias ( Description of Greece ) , Quintilian ( Institutio Oratoria 1.10.9- 10 ) and Apollonius ( Argonautica.1.23 , 496 ) . Horace's Latin is ...
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Preface | 1 |
Orpheus in the prose tracts | 18 |
Comus and the early verse | 39 |
Copyright | |
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