Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake - A Comparative Study

Zusatztext Few scholar-critics, perhaps no other, could have written this treasure of a book, at once broadly sweeping in its wise though radical judgments of three major Western authors and their mileaux, and surgically incisive and startling in its readings of particualr works ... readers will enjoy throughout the pleasure of recognition and the excitement of discovery - always accompanied by an appropriate critical context. What a book! Klappentext The indebtedness of Shakespeare! Milton! and Blake to a common source! namely the Bible becomes a powerful tool for displaying three fundamentally different poetic options as well as three different ways of dealing with a conflict central to western culture. In this piercing study of the poetics of influence! Fisch gives detailed and original discussions of Julius Caesar! Antony and Cleopatra! Hamlet! King Lear! Paradise Lost! Samson Agonistes! Blake's Milton! and Blake's illustrations to Job. Zusammenfassung In this study of the poetics of influence, the indebtedness of Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake to a common source, namely the Bible, becomes a tool for displaying three fundamentally different poetic options as well as three different ways of dealing with a conflict central to western culture.

Product details

• Authors: Harold Fisch, Harold (Emeritus Professor of English Fisch, Fisch Harold
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780198184898
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818489-8
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, British Isles, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean