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Eroticism and the Integral Self: Milton's Poems, 1645 and the Italian Pastoral Tradition

Eroticism and the Integral Self: Milton's Poems, 1645 and the Italian Pastoral Tradition Eroticism and the Integral Self: Milton's Poems, 1645 and the Italian Pastoral Tradition Patrick Cook The Comparatist, Volume 24, May 2000, pp. 123-145 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2000.0000 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415306/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:23 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST EROTICISM AND THE INTEGRAL SELF: MILTON'S POEMS, 1645 AND THE ITALIAN PASTORAL TRADITION Patrick Cook Few are likely to disagree with Harris Fletcher's remark that "for Mil- ton, throughout his lifetime, the most important of all Italian poets was Torquato Tasso" (2.307). Yet, the existing criticism does not confirm Flet- cher's insight of Tasso's importance to Milton "throughout his lifetime." The evidence that has been advanced almost exclusively concerns Para- dise Lost, where MUton defined himself against Tasso as the culmination of epic tradition and created an allusive poetics of unprecedented com- plexity in which Gerusalemme Liberata figures prominently. Milton's own pronouncements may be responsible for the critical süence about Tasso's presence in the earlier poetry. In the 1642 Reason of Church Government (3.237) Milton ranks Tasso's epic of the first crusade with the epics of Homer and Virgil, and in the 1644 OfEducation (4.286), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Eroticism and the Integral Self: Milton's Poems, 1645 and the Italian Pastoral Tradition

Cook, Patrick J.,
The Comparatist , Volume 24 – Oct 3, 2012
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Eroticism and the Integral Self: Milton's Poems, 1645 and the Italian Pastoral Tradition Patrick Cook The Comparatist, Volume 24, May 2000, pp. 123-145 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2000.0000 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415306/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:23 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST EROTICISM AND THE INTEGRAL SELF: MILTON'S POEMS, 1645 AND THE ITALIAN PASTORAL TRADITION Patrick Cook Few are likely to disagree with Harris Fletcher's remark that "for Mil- ton, throughout his lifetime, the most important of all Italian poets was Torquato Tasso" (2.307). Yet, the existing criticism does not confirm Flet- cher's insight of Tasso's importance to Milton "throughout his lifetime." The evidence that has been advanced almost exclusively concerns Para- dise Lost, where MUton defined himself against Tasso as the culmination of epic tradition and created an allusive poetics of unprecedented com- plexity in which Gerusalemme Liberata figures prominently. Milton's own pronouncements may be responsible for the critical süence about Tasso's presence in the earlier poetry. In the 1642 Reason of Church Government (3.237) Milton ranks Tasso's epic of the first crusade with the epics of Homer and Virgil, and in the 1644 OfEducation (4.286),

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