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

我的跨学科项目，结合英语，古典文学和法语，将证明约翰米尔顿的参与与亚历山大图书馆的希腊化诗人学者的史诗，抒情诗和悲剧诗学的发展的重要性。弥尔顿主义者最近注意到米尔顿的诗中有某种希腊化的成分。William Poole（2017）认为米尔顿作为一个史诗诗人是希腊化的，Gordon Teskey（2015）指出，阅读米尔顿是你能用英语阅读希腊诗歌的最接近的体验，我将通过探索米尔顿对公元前3世纪希腊化诗歌和诗人的仔细阅读和亲和力来测试和发展这些主张，如罗兹的阿波罗尼乌斯，卡利马科斯，Lycophron，还有忒奥克里托斯米尔顿自己的学生阅读和他的教学课程都是希腊化的，然而他幸存下来的希腊化作家的注释副本几乎完全被学者们忽视了。我的论文将建立在我的英语硕士圣论文的古典回声和失乐园和复乐园之间的互文关系，以及我的研究在阿波罗纽斯Argonautica为我的古典文学硕士预言。我的研究将揭示米尔顿在处理预言语言方面欠希腊化诗人的债，并在这样做的过程中，为米尔顿诗歌和诗学的深刻互文性提供新的视角。汉娜·克劳福德（Hannah Crawforth）对米尔顿注释的欧里庇得斯副本的重新评估（2016）揭示了米尔顿对新教人文主义评论的密切研究，以及它们如何为他的悲剧《力士参孙》的设计和政治提供信息。米尔顿的一些幸存的注释书籍包括希腊化诗歌，主要涉及预言，即阿拉图斯Phaenomena和Lycophrons亚历山德拉。我将研究米尔顿在这些文本中的旁注，密切关注米尔顿与新教评论家的接触，例如米尔顿与胡格诺派学者约瑟夫·斯卡利格1564年翻译的利科弗隆的《亚历山德拉》的广泛互动，特别是Scaliger在翻译Lycophron的预言性语言时使用了古希腊的典故，这极大地预见了古典主义者Nicholas Horsfall（1991）的论点。他说：“利科弗隆给了维吉尔一个指示，说明预言的话语如何能够把神话和历史的世界联系起来。”我将以古典主义者大卫·桑索内（2006）的观点为基础，通过展示米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，来说明利科弗隆的预言语言“在预言性特征上类似于[米尔顿]《利西达斯》中圣彼得的话”。

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.