Author: Steadman, John M.
Title: The Wall of Paradise: Essays on Milton's Poetics
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1985). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, vii, 156 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Milton on the Art of Poetry: Rhetorical Contexts; Notes for an 'Ars Poetica': The Office of the Poet; "Subject for Heroic Song": The Choice of an Epic Theme; Argument More Heroic: Epic Theme as Didactic Exemplum; Rhetoric & Poetics in the Preface to Samson Agonistes; Summa Epitasis: The "Middle" and "End" of Samson Agonistes; "Verse Without Rime": Milton's Debt to Italian Defenses of Blank Verse; Appendix: Allegory & Versimilitude: The "Impossible Credible".

Keywords: Literary Criticism, John Milton, English Literature, Epic Poetry, Poetics, Rhetoric, , ,