The Rhetoric of Sublime Astonishment in the Burkean and Blakean Readings of Milton

dc.creatorAntal, Éva
dc.date2021-02-01
dc.descriptionAlthough the Lockean clear and distinct ideas greatly influenced Burke in his writing on the sublime, Milton’s impact is emphatically displayed in the dark and obscure rhetoric of the work. Despite the fact that Burke’s text abounds in classical quotations, it is Milton’s “strong expressions” that overpower the argument. William Blake also borrows a lot from Milton, but he radically rejects Burke’s ideas. Through the revelatory power of his visionary sublime, Blake overtly criticizes Locke’s shallow empiricism and Burke’s obscure rhetoric, arguing against a simple disparity of light/clarity versus darkness/obscurity. This essay explores the Burkean and the Blakean readings of the Miltonic sublime side by side, analyzing the Miltonic quotations in Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry parallel with the verbal and visual references in Blake’s Milton, and highlighting the differences in their views.  (ÉA)
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7242
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadó
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7242/6647
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2018 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018)
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectWilliam Blake
dc.subjectEdmund Burke
dc.subjectJohn Milton
dc.subjectsublime
dc.titleThe Rhetoric of Sublime Astonishment in the Burkean and Blakean Readings of Milton
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Article
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