Milton's Wild Garden

Knott recalls that in Milton's Pastoral Vision, he was taken by the subtlety with which Milton had reinterpreted the rich literary tradition of the earthly paradise in representing the Garden of Eden and noted the way that the life of Adam and Eve embodied a sense of timeless ease associated wi...

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Published in:Studies in philology 2005, Vol.102 (1), p.66-82
Main Author: Knott, John R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Creationism
Flower gardens
Flowers
Fruit trees
Fruits
Gardens
Gardens & gardening
Innocence
Literature
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Nature
Paradise
Poetry
Poets
Source studies
Trees
Vision
Wilderness
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Summary:Knott recalls that in Milton's Pastoral Vision, he was taken by the subtlety with which Milton had reinterpreted the rich literary tradition of the earthly paradise in representing the Garden of Eden and noted the way that the life of Adam and Eve embodied a sense of timeless ease associated with pastoral poetry. He discloses that as he thinks about Milton's Eden now, he is more struck by the author's emphasis on its wilder aspects, apparent in the insistence that the natural world in which Adam and Ave find themselves is fundamentally untamed.
ISSN:0039-3738
1543-0383
1543-0383
DOI:10.1353/sip.2005.0002