The Two Poets of "Paradise Lost"
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The two poets of Robert McMahon's study are John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost and his Bard, the narrator within that epic. Most scholars blur the two into Milton the historic person/poet, but McMahon makes a clear distinction that begets an alternative understanding of the poem as a whole. He argues that the Bard is a fictional character created by Milton and that the Bard's own implied story unfolds as he sings his account of the Fall. In illuminating this secondary story, McMahon reveals that Milton's masterpiece is as much about the making of a Christian epic poet as it is about mankind's undoing.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807121886
ISBN13:9780807121887
Release Date:January 1998
Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
Length:210 Pages
Weight:1.03 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"
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