John Milton and Hellenistic Poetry: Encounters, Interactions, and Transformations

约翰·弥尔顿与希腊化诗歌：相遇、互动和转变

• 批准号: 2249672
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2249672
• 关键词: John; Milton; Hellenistic; Poetry; Encounters

My interdisciplinary project, combining English, Classics, and French, will demonstrate the significance of John Milton's engagement with the Hellenistic poet-scholars of the Library of Alexandria for the development of his epic, lyric, and tragic poetics. Miltonists have recently noticed a certain Greekness about Milton's poetry. William Poole (2017) argues that Milton as an epic poet is Hellenistic', and Gordon Teskey (2015) states that reading Milton is the closest you can come in English to the experience of reading poetry in Greek' I will test and develop these claims by exploring Milton's careful reading of and affinity with 3rd-century BCE Hellenistic poetry and poets, such as Apollonius of Rhodes, Callimachus,Lycophron, and Theocritus. Milton's own student reading and his teaching curriculum were richly Hellenistic, yet his surviving annotated copies of Hellenistic authors have been almost wholly overlooked by scholars. My thesis will build on my English M.St. dissertation on classical echoes in and the intertextual relationship between Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained as well as my research on prophecy in Apollonius Argonautica for my Classics MA. My study will reveal the debt owed by Milton to Hellenistic poets in his handling of prophetic speech, and, in so doing, cast fresh light on the profoundly intertextual nature of Milton's poetry and poetics.Hannah Crawforth's reassessment (2016) of Milton's annotated copy of Euripides revealed Milton's close study of Protestant humanist commentaries, and how they informed the design and politics of his tragedy Samson Agonistes. A number of Milton's surviving annotated books include Hellenistic poems that deal predominantly with prophecy namely, Aratus Phaenomena and Lycophrons Alexandra. I will examine Milton's marginalia in these texts, paying close attention to Milton's engagement with Protestant commentators such as Milton's extensive interaction with the Huguenot scholar Joseph Scaliger's 1564 translation of Lycophron's Alexandra, and in particular to Scaliger's employment of Virgillian allusions intranslating Lycophron's prophetic language which greatly anticipates arguments such as the classicist Nicholas Horsfall's (1991) that 'Lycophron gave Virgil an indication of how prophetic utterance could serve to bind the mythical and historical worlds'. I will build on the classicist David Sansone's view (2006) that Lycophron's prophetic language 'resembles St. Peter's words in [Milton's] Lycidas in its prophetic character' by showing how Milton's engagement with humanist scholars such as Scaliger in his reading of Hellenistic poetry shaped the prophetic language of his own verse.

我的跨学科项目结合了英语、古典文学和法语，将展示约翰·弥尔顿与亚历山大图书馆的希腊化诗人学者的接触对于发展他的史诗、抒情和悲剧诗学的重要性。弥尔顿主义者最近注意到弥尔顿的诗歌带有一定的希腊色彩。威廉·普尔（William Poole）（2017）认为弥尔顿作为史诗诗人是希腊化的”，而戈登·泰斯基（Gordon Teskey）（2015）指出，阅读弥尔顿的英语作品与阅读希腊诗歌的体验最接近。”我将通过探索弥尔顿对公元前 3 世纪希腊化诗歌和诗人（如罗德岛的阿波罗尼乌斯）的仔细阅读和亲和力来测试和发展这些主张。 卡利马科斯、利科弗隆和忒奥克里特。弥尔顿自己的学生阅读和他的教学课程充满了丰富的希腊化风格，但他幸存的希腊化时期作者的注释副本几乎完全被学者们忽视了。我的论文将以我的英语硕士学位为基础。我的论文是《失乐园》和《复乐园》中的古典回响和互文关系，以及我为古典文学硕士学位而对《阿波罗尼乌斯·阿尔戈英雄》中的预言进行的研究。我的研究将揭示弥尔顿在处理预言性演讲时对希腊化诗人的亏欠，并以此为弥尔顿诗歌和诗学深刻的互文性质提供新的视角。汉娜·克劳福斯对弥尔顿注释的欧里庇得斯副本的重新评估（2016）揭示了弥尔顿对新教人文主义评论的仔细研究，以及它们如何影响他的悲剧的设计和政治 参孙阿激动剂。弥尔顿现存的许多注释书籍包括主要涉及预言的希腊化诗歌，即《阿拉图斯现象》和《利科弗龙斯亚历山德拉》。我将研究弥尔顿在这些文本中的旁注，密切关注弥尔顿与新教评论家的接触，例如弥尔顿与胡格诺派学者约瑟夫·斯卡利格 (Joseph Scaliger) 1564 年翻译的利科弗隆 (Lycophron) 的《亚历山德拉》(Alexandra) 的广泛互动，特别是斯卡利格 (Scaliger) 在翻译利科弗隆 (Lycophron) 的预言语言时使用了维吉尔的典故，该语言极大地预见了诸如古典主义者尼古拉斯霍斯法尔 (Nicholas Horsfall) 等论点。 （1991）“Lycophron 向维吉尔展示了预言性的话语如何能够将神话世界和历史世界联系起来”。我将基于古典主义者大卫·桑索（David Sansone）的观点（2006），即利科弗隆的预言语言“在其预言特征上类似于[弥尔顿的]《利西达斯》中圣彼得的话语””，通过展示弥尔顿在阅读希腊化诗歌时与斯卡利格等人文主义学者的接触如何塑造了他自己诗歌的预言语言。