Sources and Traditions of Milton’s “L’allegro” and “Il Pensoroso”
| Author: | Hurley, C. | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Pages: | 168 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-7913-9 978-0-7734-7913-5 | |
| Price: | $159.95 + shipping | |
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This study not only enables a modern audience to assess more fully the nature of Milton’s creativity but also to experience more clearly the companion poems as Milton’s contemporary readers – unencumbered by several centuries of scholarly commentary and accretion – might have experienced them.
Reviews
“The value of this book lies both in its contribution to a clearer reading of the twin compositions and in its demonstration of the rich ore to be mined in source study. Some time-honored interpretations simply fade away when the poems are seen in the context of the traditions from which they sprang. . . . Hurley demonstrates how Milton drew from a variety of traditions and transformed them for his own purposes. . . Hurley helps us to understand and appreciate more fully Milton’s transformation of the melancholy, pastoral, and character traditions as we watch him at work in his smithy.” – LeMoyne Mercer
Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
Preface, Foreword
1. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” – The Texts
2. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and Source Study
3. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and Melancholy: Robert Burton’s “The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy” and The Anatomy of Melancholy; John Fletcher’s “Melancholy”; William Strode’s “Opposite to Melancholy”; John Marston’s “Proemium in librum primum” and “Satire XI”; The Melancholy Tradition
4. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and the Pastoral: Natural Landscapes; Nicholas Breton’s “Passion Three” of The Passionate Shepheard; Anonymous’ “The louer describeth his whole state vnto his love . . . “; Milton’s “First Prolusion”; Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”; The Pastoral Tradition
5. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and the “Character” Tradition
6. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” : A Final Assessment of Milton’s Achievement
Appendices: Robert Burton’s “The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy” ; John Fletcher’s “Melancholy”; William Strode’s “Opposite to Melancholy”; John Marston’s “Proemium in librum primum” and “Satire XI”; Nicholas Breton’s “Passion Three” of The Passionate Shepheard; Anonymous’ “The louer describeth his whole state vnto his love . . . “;Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” ;Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”; Sir Thomas Overbury’s “A Melancholy Man”; Wye Saltonstall’s “A Melancholy Man” and “A Merry Man”; John Earle’s “A Contemplative Man”; Wye Saltonstall’s “A Happy Man”
Works cited, Index
Preface, Foreword
1. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” – The Texts
2. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and Source Study
3. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and Melancholy: Robert Burton’s “The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy” and The Anatomy of Melancholy; John Fletcher’s “Melancholy”; William Strode’s “Opposite to Melancholy”; John Marston’s “Proemium in librum primum” and “Satire XI”; The Melancholy Tradition
4. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and the Pastoral: Natural Landscapes; Nicholas Breton’s “Passion Three” of The Passionate Shepheard; Anonymous’ “The louer describeth his whole state vnto his love . . . “; Milton’s “First Prolusion”; Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”; The Pastoral Tradition
5. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” and the “Character” Tradition
6. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” : A Final Assessment of Milton’s Achievement
Appendices: Robert Burton’s “The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy” ; John Fletcher’s “Melancholy”; William Strode’s “Opposite to Melancholy”; John Marston’s “Proemium in librum primum” and “Satire XI”; Nicholas Breton’s “Passion Three” of The Passionate Shepheard; Anonymous’ “The louer describeth his whole state vnto his love . . . “;Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” ;Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”; Sir Thomas Overbury’s “A Melancholy Man”; Wye Saltonstall’s “A Melancholy Man” and “A Merry Man”; John Earle’s “A Contemplative Man”; Wye Saltonstall’s “A Happy Man”
Works cited, Index