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The Poetry of John Milton

Gordon Teskey

For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton’s aesthetic joins beauty to truth and value to ethics and how he rediscovers the art of poetry as a way of thinking in the world as it is, and for the world as it can be.

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Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards: Christian Gauss Award2016WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • John Milton96%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Milton’s aesthetics join beauty with truth and value with ethics, and his poetry reclaims the art of thinking about the world as it is and as it can be.

    Model confidence 68%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    75 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.