Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism

Both the English Civil War and the French Revolution produced in England an outpouring of literature reflecting intense belief in the arrival of a better world, and new philosophies of the relationship between mind, language and cosmos. Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism is the first book to explore the significance of the connections between the literature of these two periods. The volume analyses Milton's influence on Romantic writers including Blake, Beckford, Wordsworth, Shelley, Radcliffe and Keats, and examines the relationships between other seventeenth-century poets - Donne, Marvell, Vaughan, Herrick, Cowley, Rochester and Dryden - and Romantic writers. Representing a wide range of theoretical approaches, and including original contributions by leading British, American and Canadian scholars, this is a provocative and challenging assessment of the relationship between two of the richest periods of British literary history.

Introduction
Milton, the metaphysicals, and romanticism: reading the past, reflecting the present Lisa
The other reading transactional epic in
Newton's pantocrator and Blake's recovery of Miltonic prophecy
Milton's hell: William Beckford's place in the graphic and the literary tradition
How theories of Romanticism exclude women Radcliffe, Milton, and the legitimation of the gothic novel
Wordsworth, Milton, and the inward light
De-fencing the poet: The political dilemma of the poet and the people in Milton's Second Defense and Shelley's Defence of Poetry
Keats's Marginalia in Paradise Lost
What the mower does to the meadow: action and reflection in
Kidnapping the poets: the Romantics and
'Against the Stream Upwards': Coleridge's Recovery of
Coleridge, Keats, Lamb and seventeenth-century drinking songs
Marvell, Keats, Wallace Stevens, and the (early) modern meditation poem
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Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism

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