The Arrangement and Dates of Milton's Sonnets
| Autor: | James Holly Hanford |
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| Rok vydání: | 1921 |
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| Zdroj: | Modern Philology. 18:475-483 |
| ISSN: | 1545-6951 0026-8232 |
| Popis: | Professor David Harrison Stevens, in a recent article entitled "The Order of Milton's Sonnets, "' has worked out a new chronology for these pieces based primarily on the hypothesis that Milton himself intended to arrange them according to the time of their composition and that their order in the 1645 edition and their designated order in the Cambridge Manuscript may therefore be relied on for the determination of doubtful points. Proved disagreement between the Cambridge Manuscript and the edition of 1673 is held to strengthen the supposition that the departures from the chronological order in that volume did not have Milton's sanction. In reopening the question of chronology and in directing attention to the data afforded by the Cambridge Manuscript, Professor Stevens has rendered a necessary service to Milton scholarship. A review of his conclusions is made desirable by what appears to be unsoundness in some of his arguments and by the existence of evidence in addition to what has hitherto been brought forward. We may consider first the problem of the arrangement of the sonnets in the 1673 edition. |
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