- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Literary Criticism
Full Description
In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of 'first matter' are centrally located in 'Light Ethereal, first of things', 'that light', as Raphael explains, that is constituted from its inhering 'reciprocal' forces. This study argues that the workings of this Miltonic reciprocity were first understood in concrete specificity by Immanuel Kant, though buried on two intricately argued manuscript pages of his Opus postumum. Almost as remarkable as Kant's Miltonic recognitions, William Wordsworth - directly inspired by earlier Kantian ideas of reciprocity and of the sublime - made his own way to this Miltonic poetics of co-existent being, most spectacularly in The Prelude. In this fascinating study, Budick demonstrates how Milton, Kant and Wordsworth together offer a revolutionary understanding of the function of poetry in the quest of human consciousness for participation in being.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Citations
Conspectus: Reciprocal Expression in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth
1. Paradise Lost and the "Reciprocal"
2. Kant and Milton's Reciprocal Expression
3. "Light out of darkness" in Paradise Lost: "Answering" God's "great Idea"
4. Wordsworth's Kantian Ideas: The View from "Yew-Trees"
5. Wordsworth with Milton and Kant in "The Ruined Cottage" and the Immortality Ode
6. The Miltonic-Kantian Prelude: "A power like one of Nature's"
Appendix: Harold Bloom on the Trope of 'Transumption' in Paradise Lost
Index
