- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Milton’s Spots -
2 Critical Mass -
3 ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’ -
4 ‘In the Dun Air Sublime’ -
5 Milton’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy -
6 John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt -
7 ‘To Secure Our Freedom’ -
8 Milton Modulated for Handel’s Music -
9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton -
10 ‘I Still Deny’d, Much Pleas’d to Hear You Sue’ -
11 Angel Bodies to Whig Souls -
12 Yet Once More -
13 Milton’s Pope -
14 The Circling Hours -
15 ‘In Power of Others, Never in My Own’ -
16 Milton and the Restoration Literae -
17 Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism -
18 Friday as Fit Help -
19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age -
20 Haak’s Milton -
21 Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674–1682 -
22 Purging the Visual Nerve -
23 Some Thoughts on Periodization -
24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad -
25 Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic -
26 Milton and the People -
27 Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660–1742 -
28 Raphael’s Condescension -
29 ‘His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him’ - Bibliography
- Index
Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad
Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad
- Chapter:
- (p.447) 24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad
- Source:
- Milton in the Long Restoration
- Author(s):
John Leonard
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter explores the influence of Paradise Lost on Pope’s Homeric translations, especially his Iliad, and examines the influence that Pope exerted on Milton’s eighteenth-century editors and critics, both through his poetic practice and his critical notes on Homer (which frequently mention Milton). The chapter examines four main aspects of epic style in Milton and Pope: (1) versification, especially the use of ‘apt Numbers’ to make sound imitate sense; (2) epic diction, especially Pope’s use of Milton to adapt and accommodate those features of Homer that we now know to be oral formulae; (3) the relation of epic to mock epic; (4) the homologated epic simile. The claim is that Pope’s Iliad provides a useful lens through which to read Paradise Lost, and that it exerted an influence on Milton’s eighteenth-century editors and critics that has yet to be fully recognized.
Keywords: John Milton, Alexander Pope, Homer, epic style, versification, mock epic, epic similes
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text and List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 Milton’s Spots -
2 Critical Mass -
3 ‘A Fine Paradisaical Notion’ -
4 ‘In the Dun Air Sublime’ -
5 Milton’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy -
6 John Dennis, John Locke, and the Sublimation of Revolt -
7 ‘To Secure Our Freedom’ -
8 Milton Modulated for Handel’s Music -
9 John Dryden Meets, Rhymes, and Says Farewell to John Milton -
10 ‘I Still Deny’d, Much Pleas’d to Hear You Sue’ -
11 Angel Bodies to Whig Souls -
12 Yet Once More -
13 Milton’s Pope -
14 The Circling Hours -
15 ‘In Power of Others, Never in My Own’ -
16 Milton and the Restoration Literae -
17 Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism -
18 Friday as Fit Help -
19 Early Modern Marriage in a Secular Age -
20 Haak’s Milton -
21 Miltonic Texts and European Politics, 1674–1682 -
22 Purging the Visual Nerve -
23 Some Thoughts on Periodization -
24 Milton, the Long Restoration, and Pope’s Iliad -
25 Paradise Lost and English Mock Heroic -
26 Milton and the People -
27 Paradise Lost in the Long Restoration, 1660–1742 -
28 Raphael’s Condescension -
29 ‘His Ears Now Were Eyes to Him’ - Bibliography
- Index
