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- The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
- The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Blank-verse freethinking and its opponents
- Chapter 1 “In wand’ring mazes lost”: skepticism and poetry in Milton’s infernal conclave
- Chapter 2 “With Serpent error wand’ring found thir way”: Milton’s counter-plot revisited
- Chapter 3 “Man’s mortality”: Milton after Wordsworth
- Chapter 4 “These beauteous forms”: “Tintern Abbey” and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis
- Chapter 5 “Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power”: Wordsworth’s meditation on books and death in Book 5 ofThe Prelude
- Chapter 6 “Who shall save?”: Shelley’s quest for the absolute inA Defence of PoetryandAlastor
- Chapter 7 Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in theHyperionpoems
- Chapter 8 “Of happy men that have the power to die”: Tennyson’s “Tithonus”
- Chapter 9 Stevens’ anatomy
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - “Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power”: Wordsworth’s meditation on books and death in Book 5 ofThe Prelude
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
- The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Blank-verse freethinking and its opponents
- Chapter 1 “In wand’ring mazes lost”: skepticism and poetry in Milton’s infernal conclave
- Chapter 2 “With Serpent error wand’ring found thir way”: Milton’s counter-plot revisited
- Chapter 3 “Man’s mortality”: Milton after Wordsworth
- Chapter 4 “These beauteous forms”: “Tintern Abbey” and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis
- Chapter 5 “Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power”: Wordsworth’s meditation on books and death in Book 5 ofThe Prelude
- Chapter 6 “Who shall save?”: Shelley’s quest for the absolute inA Defence of PoetryandAlastor
- Chapter 7 Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in theHyperionpoems
- Chapter 8 “Of happy men that have the power to die”: Tennyson’s “Tithonus”
- Chapter 9 Stevens’ anatomy
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to StevensFreethinking and the Crisis of Modernity, pp. 98 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012