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Religious rite and ceremony in Milton's poetry / by Thomas B. Stroup.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (96 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813164458
  • 0813164451
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religious Rite and Ceremony in Milton's Poetry.DDC classification:
  • 821/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3592.R4
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Minor Poems; 2. Paradise Lost; 3. Paradise Regained; 4. Samson Agonistes; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V.
Summary: Milton, the arch-Puritan and outspoken critic of the stereotyped rituals of the established churches, has been regarded by most scholars as a writer who is unlikely to have employed liturgical materials in his poetry. Thomas B. Stroup shows to the contrary that Milton made extensive use of Christian liturgy not only as material within the body of his poems but also as a force in shaping them. In a survey of both Milton's major works and his minor poems, prayers of thanksgiving, the General Confession, similarities to hymns, echoes from canticles, and many other rites and ceremonies of the churc.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)938565

Print version record.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Minor Poems; 2. Paradise Lost; 3. Paradise Regained; 4. Samson Agonistes; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V.

Milton, the arch-Puritan and outspoken critic of the stereotyped rituals of the established churches, has been regarded by most scholars as a writer who is unlikely to have employed liturgical materials in his poetry. Thomas B. Stroup shows to the contrary that Milton made extensive use of Christian liturgy not only as material within the body of his poems but also as a force in shaping them. In a survey of both Milton's major works and his minor poems, prayers of thanksgiving, the General Confession, similarities to hymns, echoes from canticles, and many other rites and ceremonies of the churc.