Rapt With Pleasaunce
Vision and Narration in the Epic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11753077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Patterson (corresponding author), Lee W Patterson |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 455-455 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ELH (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8304 • E-ISSN: 1080-6547 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2872908 |
| OpenAlex | W2331772693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
ions of doctrine. Milton is of course the great transitional figure in our literary history, and the versions of him that criticism gives us bespeak his liminality. An older tradition locates him as the last poet of the philosophical epic, writing a poem that is not merely historically true but, more profoundly, itself a form of knowledge.29 Virgil is full of wisdom, says Servius, an assumption that governed both Virgilian commentary and the writing of epic until well after Milton's day.30 On the other hand, the Renaissance conception of the epic was capacious, and more recent literary historians have found warrant for seeing in Milton a visionary bard who preserved the heritage of romance for the English line that was to follow.31 Although this study of a single topos does indeed argue for the primacy of the first view, such a complicated issue can hardly be resolved by these preliminary soundings. More to the point is the fact that the choice between these alternative 472 Vision and Narration in the Epic This content downloaded from 157.55.39.198 on Thu, 21 Jul 2016 05:34:27 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms modes of interpretation is itself central to Milton's way of writing. Why this should be so, why-given the example of Dante-a choice should even be necessary, is the question that requires an answer. The Johns Hopkins University
Art · EPIC · Literature · Narrative · Historical and Literary Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2009 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |