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020			_a9780191954818 _qelectronic book _cNo price
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100			_aCreaser, John _eauthor. _923317
245			_aMilton and the Resources of the Line : _cJohn Creaser
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c2022
300			_a416 p _billustrations(colour)
520			_aWhereas prose is written in sentences, poetry is written in lines, lines that may or may not coincide with the syntax of the sentence. Lines add an aural and visual mode of punctuation through bringing some degree of pause and sense of weight at the line-turn. So lineation, the division of poetry into lines, opens a repertoire of possibilities to the poet. Notably, it encourages an enhanced concentration on meaning, rhythm, and sound. It makes metrical patterns possible, with interactions between regularity and deviation; or the presence or absence of structural rhyme; or the multiple variations of the line-turn, whether in harmony with syntax or overflowing in ways either more or less conspicuous. This book develops ways for exploring the expressive resources of the verse line through concentration on the greatest of English poets, John Milton. Topics examined include: the interaction of strictness and freedom in the rhythms of Milton's line and paragraph; the interfusion of diverse prosodies in a single poem; approaches to free verse; rhyme in the earlier lyric verse and modes of near-rhyme in the later blank verse; the diverse modes of onomatopoeia; and the complex interweavings of prosody and ideology in this very political poet. The great themes and issues and characters of Milton's innovative and always controversial poetry are perceived afresh, being approached intimately through the rich possibilities of the line. The insights of the approach will illuminate the reading of any poetry.
650			_aTechnique _923318
650			_aEnglish language _xEarly modern, 1500-1700 _zRhetoric _923319
856			_aOxford Academic _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864253.001.0001
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