Milton and the Romantic Sonnet Revival
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In the last few decades of the eighteenth century, the greatest neglect had befallen the sonnet. Although John Milton made distinct changes in the sonnet tradition in terms of subject-matter and form, his sonnets had to wait a century and a half to find an admiring reader. With his twenty four published sonnets, he introduced a new modification of the Petrarchan sonnet form. Unlike the Petrarchan models, Milton repeatedly represents in his sonnets the struggle of the individual and the need for the poet to have a better understanding of himself and reality. Departing from the Elizabethan sonnet’s niceties and graces of love, and working against the sonnet’s predetermined bipartite structure through a controlled use of run-on lines and caesurae, Milton established a thematic procedure – in which the individual progresses from doubt to reaffirming faith – which later poets draw upon to develop the Romantic meditative poems. It is the towering personality and sublimity that Milton achieved unprecedentedly in the sonnet form that eighteenth-century sonneteers recognized as inaugurating a new tradition; and that such Romantic poets as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats reproduced and intensified in their sonnet practice to represent the modes of self-consciousness that heightened anxiety over poetic vision.
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In the last few decades of the eighteenth century, the greatest neglect had befallen the sonnet. Although John Milton made distinct changes in the sonnet tradition in terms of subject-matter and form, his sonnets had to wait a century and a half to find an admiring reader. With his twenty four published sonnets, he introduced a new modification of the Petrarchan sonnet form. Unlike the Petrarchan models, Milton repeatedly represents in his sonnets the struggle of the individual and the need for the poet to have a better understanding of himself and reality. Departing from the Elizabethan sonnet’s niceties and graces of love, and working against the sonnet’s predetermined bipartite structure through a controlled use of run-on lines and caesurae, Milton established a thematic procedure – in which the individual progresses from doubt to reaffirming faith – which later poets draw upon to develop the Romantic meditative poems. It is the towering personality and sublimity that Milton achieved unprecedentedly in the sonnet form that eighteenth-century sonneteers recognized as inaugurating a new tradition; and that such Romantic poets as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats reproduced and intensified in their sonnet practice to represent the modes of self-consciousness that heightened anxiety over poetic vision.
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