The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake: A Comparative Study

ISBN-13: 9780198184898 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 352 str.

Harold Fisch

Opis

The indebtedness of Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake to a common source, namely the Bible becomes a powerful tool for displaying three fundamentally different poetic options as well as three different ways of dealing with a conflict central to western culture. In this piercing study of the poetics of influence, Fisch gives detailed and original discussions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Blake's Milton, and Blake's illustrations to Job.

Recenzje

Few scholar-critics, perhaps no other, could have written this treasure of a book, at once broadly sweeping in its wise though radical judgments of three major Western authors and their mileaux, and surgically incisive and startling in its readings of particualr works ... readers will enjoy throughout the pleasure of recognition and the excitement of discovery - always accompanied by an appropriate critical context. What a book!