Unpremeditated Verse: Feeling and Perception in Paradise Lost

Wayne Shumaker

Published by Princeton University Press 1967

Unpremeditated Verse

Feeling and Perception in Paradise Lost

Wayne Shumaker

Volume 1942 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400876600

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The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the reader’s response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demonstrates the special resonance Milton gave to Paradise Lost through his development of its mythic quality and through the emotive patterns in the poem. Shumaker describes the effect on the reader’s subconscious responses of Milton’s choice of visual and auditory images. Underlying the treatment is an assumption that during the act of composition the poet’s mind is often stirred to its depths and registers with astonishing fidelity what is happening on all the levels of his psyche, conscious and unconscious.

Originally published in 1967.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CHAPTER I. PARADISE LOST AS MYTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER II. THE NARRATIVE PLAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
CHAPTER III. THREE EXAMPLES OF AFFECTIVE TONALITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
CHAPTER IV. ANIMISM : THE EPIC WORLD AS SENTIENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
CHAPTER V. SYNECDOCHE AND METONYMY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER VI. VISUAL PERCEPTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
CHAPTER VII. AUDITORY PERCEPTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
CHAPTER VIII. SOMATIC PERCEPTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
CHAPTER IX. AFFECT AND PERCEPT ON THE MOUNT OF SPECULATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225