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Milton's Tercentenary - An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday.
It is right that this anniversary should be kept in all English-speaking lands. Milton is as far away from us in time as Dante was from him; destructive criticism has been busy with his great poem; formidable rivals of his fame have arisenDryden and Pope, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Browning, not to speak of lesser namespoets whom we read perhaps oftener and with more pleasure. Yet still his throne remains unshaken. By generalby well-nigh universalconsent, he is still the second poet of our race, the greatest, save one, of all who have used the English speech. The high epics, the Iliad, the Divine Comedy, do not appear to us as they appeared to their contemporaries, nor as they appeared to the Middle Ages or to the men of the Renaissance or of the eighteenth century. These peaks of song we see foreshortened or in changed perspective or from a different angle of observation. Their parallax varies from age to age, yet their stature does not dwindle; they tower forever, "like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved." Paradise Lost does not mean the same thing to us that it meant to Addison or Johnson or Macaulay, and much that those critics said of it now seems mistaken. Works of art, as of nature, have perishable elements, and suffer a loss from time's transhifting. Homer's gods are childish, Dante's hell grotesque; and the mythology of the one and the scholasticism of the other are scarcely more obsolete to-day than Milton's theology. Yet in the dryest parts of Paradise Lost we feel the touch of the master. Two things in particular, the rhythm and the style, go on victoriously as by their own momentum. God the Father may be a school divine and Adam a member of Parliament, but the verse never flags, the diction never fails. The poem may grow heavy, but not languid, thin or weak. I confess that there are traits of Milton which repel or irritate; that there are poets with whom sympathy is easier. And if I were speaking merely as an impressionist, I might prefer them to him. But this does not affect my estimate of his absolute greatness. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 33248
Author: Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Release Date: Nov 23, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English
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