Unpremeditated Verse: Feeling and Perception in Paradise Lost (Princeton Legacy Library, 1942) - Hardcover

Shumaker, Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691061343 ISBN 13: 9780691061344

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1967

Synopsis

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 that during the act of composition the poet’s mind is often stirred to its depths and registers with astonishing fidelity what is happening on all the levels of his psyche, conscious and unconscious.

Originally published in 1967.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0691061343
• ISBN 13: 9780691061344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243