Representing creation, experiencing the sublime: The Longinian tradition in Tasso and Milton
Keywords:
Torquato Tasso, John Milton, creation, the sublime, epic theoryAbstract
The fiat lux quotation in Peri Hypsous is of undeniable interest since Longinus merges the idea of the poet-Creator with the sublime. This paper aims to demonstrate how Tasso and Milton were very self-conscious of the Longinian tradition and in their fashioning a poetry of the sublime when rewriting the story of creation. The author of Il Mondo Creato incorporates the Longinian model of sublime ekstasis into his concept of meraviglia. Despite Milton’s indebtedness to Tasso, in Paradise Lost the English poet distances himself from a full commitment into Longinian ekstasis and locates the sublime into a more dialogical, if not dialectical, compositional model of poetic creation.
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