The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and AfterIn this essay on "what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo,” John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study of the rhetorical status of the figure of echo and an examination of the ancient and newly interesting trope of metalepsis, or transumption, which it appears to embody. Centered on ways in which Milton's poetry echoes, and is echoed by, other texts, The Figure of Echo also explores Spenser and other Renaissance writers; romantic poets such as Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth; and modern poets including Hardy, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, Williams, and Hart Crane. This book has implications for literary theory and holds great practical interest for students and teachers of American and English literature of all periods. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. |
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acoustical Adam alludes allusive echo Angus Fletcher answer association beauty bird Book calls catachresis cave Comus context Crane's dark dead death dramatic irony earlier Eccho echo device echo scheme echo song Echo's echoic English enjambment erotic example fable Faerie Queene fallen famous figure fragments George Sandys glosses Harold Bloom hear Hesiod hymn implicit interpretation invokes Jonson's Keats kind later lines literal Lycidas lyric Marvell's masque meaning metalepsis metaleptic metaphor metonymy Milton mode Muses mythographic mythology Narcissus nature nymph original Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost passage pastoral pattern perhaps phrase poem poet poetic poetry praise punning refrain relation Renaissance repetition resonant resound revision rhetorical rhyme Satan scene seems self-echo sense shade simile sing sound Spenser's stanza Stevens synecdoche Tennyson Thames Theocritus thou tion tradition trans translation transumption trope unfallen utterance verse Virgil's Virgilian voice Wallace Stevens Whitman's wind woods word Wordsworth