Unpremeditated Verse Feeling and Perception in "Paradise Lost" [Hardcover]

The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the readers response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demonstrates the special resonance Milton gave toParadise Lostthrough his development of its mythic quality and through the emotive patterns in the poem. Shumaker describes the effect on the readers subconscious responses of Miltons choice of visual and auditory images. Underlying the treatment is an assumption that during the act of composition the poets mind is often stirred to its depths and registers with astonishing fidelity what is happening on all the levels of his psyche, conscious and unconscious.

Originally published in 1967.

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