Editing Milton: The Case Against Modernisation

Dobranski, Stephen B.

doi:10.1093/res/hgm030

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“…However, Stephen B. Dobranski (2008) raises the interesting possibility that the 1645 preface may not have even been written by Milton but by someone at the publishing house (p. 402). 12 Robins, in his 1954 essay "Milton's 'Two-Handed Engine," believes that both the 1645 preface and the relevant lines in the poem refer to an eternal judgment.…”

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Milton’s Two-Handed Engine as a Conceptual Metaphor

Tindol

2019

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One of the longstanding mysteries of English poetry is the identification of the “two-handed engine” from John Milton’s 1638 poem “Lycidas,” with which Saint Peter threatens to “strike once, and strike no more” the clergy who have been remiss in their duties. A new way of looking at the image is to read the entire passage with George Lakoff and Mark Turner’s theory of conceptual metaphors in mind. The strength of this approach is to show that identification of the two-handed engine should be considered within the context of the entire poem. As many commentators have argued, Lycidas’s posthumous fate as the “genius of the shore” does not rest solely in the actions of Saint Peter, but instead involves a reconciliation that amalgamates elements of both Christianity and the classical world as well as nature. The conceptual metaphor thus provides a single combinatory image.

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Section: Turner Explain the Relationship As Followsmentioning

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Milton’s Two-Handed Engine as a Conceptual Metaphor

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2019

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“…What tradition sees as contamination, McGann sees as collaboration, neglecting authorial intention and stressing the role of friends, scribes, editors, printers, and readers in the production of communal artifacts 14 . Such an approach to Milton has recently been endorsed by Stephen Dobranski.…”

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