'Service Is Perfect Freedom': Paradox and Prosodic Style in Paradise Lost

Traditional foot-substitution prosody is demonstrably unable to do justice to the rhythm of the less straightforward lines in Milton's Paradise Lost, and this essay argues for an approach based on the prosodic theories of Derek Attridge. Through comparison with excerpts from early narrative bla...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Review of English studies 2007-06, Vol.58 (235), p.268-315
1. Verfasser:	Creaser, John
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Blank verse Employee demotion Fall lines Lexical stress Linguistic rhythm Literary criticism Literary style Milton, John (1608-1674) Poetic feet Poetic meter Poetry Poets Syllables
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