Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth
Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton’s Paradise Lost, Thomson’s The Seasons and Wordsworth’s The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. Reading Time argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader’s own experience of time.

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Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth
Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton’s Paradise Lost, Thomson’s The Seasons and Wordsworth’s The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. Reading Time argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader’s own experience of time.

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Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth

Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth

by Tess Somervell
Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth

Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth

by Tess Somervell

Overview

Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton’s Paradise Lost, Thomson’s The Seasons and Wordsworth’s The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. Reading Time argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader’s own experience of time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474486149
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/15/2024
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, then held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on the poetry and culture of the period 1660-1850.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction

I MILTON1 His Prospect High: The Nunc Stans in Paradise Lost 2 More Than Delphic: Miltonic History and Hermeneutics 3 A Full-Grown Beauty: Reading Paradise Lost

II THOMSON4 Shade Softening into Shade: Georgic Causation in The Seasons 5 The Broken Scene: Thomson’s Tales 6 Unforced Method: Reading The Seasons

III WORDSWORTH7 Years Flowed In Between: Chronos and Kairos in The Prelude 8 Hung O’er the Deep: Wordsworth’s Allusions and Revisions 9 A Feeling of the Whole: Reading The Prelude

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