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  Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings (Hardback) By (author) Joseph Anthony Wittreich

  

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  Short Description for Why Milton MattersA poet of the seventeenth century, Milton with his future gaze may prove to be (singularly among the triumvirate of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton) the poet "for" the new millennium--the poet "for" the twenty-first century. Milton will be so to the extent that through him we see the upheavals in the humanities as deriving not from a revision of the canon but rather, as Bill Readings insists in "...
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  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Published: 27 March 2008
  • Format: Hardback 280 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781403972293 ISBN 10: 140397229X

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• A poet of the seventeenth century, Milton with his future gaze may prove to be (singularly among the triumvirate of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton) the poet "for" the new millennium--the poet "for" the twenty-first century. Milton will be so to the extent that through him we see the upheavals in the humanities as deriving not from a revision of the canon but rather, as Bill Readings insists in "The University in Ruins, " from "a crisis in the "function" of the canon" and, then, to the extent that Milton shocks us into the recognition that poets sometimes deliver messages at odds with those with which they are credited.