Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings

✍ Scribed by Joseph Wittreich

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A poet of the seventeenth century, Milton with his future gaze may prove to be (singularly among the triumvirate of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton) the poet for the new millennium--the poet for the twenty-first century.  Milton will be so to the extent that through him we see the upheavals in the humanities as deriving not from a revision of the canon but rather, as Bill Readings insists in The University in Ruins, from "a crisis in the function of the canon" and, then, to the extent that Milton shocks us into the recognition that poets sometimes deliver messages at odds with those with which they are credited. 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Citations......Page 9
Illustrations......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
1 "Reading" Milton: The Death (and Survival) of the Author......Page 28
2 Horizons of Expectations: Repressions, Receptions, and the Politics of Milton's Last Poems......Page 88
3 Questioning and Critique: The Formation of a New Milton Criticism......Page 168
Notes......Page 222
B......Page 268
C......Page 269
D......Page 270
G......Page 271
J......Page 272
M......Page 273
N......Page 274
P......Page 275
R......Page 277
S......Page 278
T......Page 279
Z......Page 280