Machine generated contents note: Introduction: blank-verse freethinking and its opponents; 1. 'In wand'ring mazes lost': skepticism and poetry in Milton's infernal conclave (Paradise Lost, Book 2); 2. 'With serpent error wand'ring found thir way': Milton's counterplot revisited (Paradise Lost, Book 7); 3. 'Man's mortality': Milton after Wordsworth (Paradise Lost, Book 10); 4. 'These beauteous forms': 'Tintern Abbey' and the post-Enlightenment religious crisis; 5. 'Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power': Wordsworth's meditation on books and death in Book 5 of The Prelude; 6. 'Who shall save?' Shelley's quest for the Absolute in A Defence of Poetry and Alastor; 7. Keats and the dilemmas of modernity in the Hyperion poems; 8. 'Of happy men that have the power to die': Tennyson's 'Tithonus'; 9. Stevens' anatomy; Bibliography.
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The blank-verse tradition from Milton to Stevens : freethinking and the crisis of modernity by Henry Weinfield. ISBN 9781107025400. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
