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·弥尔顿与亚历山大图书馆的希腊化诗人学者的接触对他的史诗、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弥尔顿的诗歌中有一种希腊风格。William Poole（2017）认为弥尔顿作为一位史诗诗人是希腊化的，Gordon Teskey（2015）认为阅读弥尔顿是你在英语中最接近希腊诗歌的阅读体验，我将通过探索弥尔顿对公元前3世纪希腊诗歌和诗人的仔细阅读和亲和力来验证和发展这些说法，这些诗人包括罗德岛的阿波罗尼乌斯、卡利马库斯、利科弗龙和泰奥克里托斯。弥尔顿自己的学生读物和他的教学课程都有丰富的希腊化，然而他幸存下来的希腊化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。我的古典文学硕士论文是关于《失乐园》和《复乐园》的经典呼应和互文关系，以及我对《阿波罗尼乌斯·阿尔戈autica》预言的研究。我的研究将揭示弥尔顿在处理预言演讲时，对希腊诗人的亏欠，这样做，将对弥尔顿诗歌和诗学深刻的互文本质带来新的启示。汉娜·克劳馥斯对弥尔顿的《欧里庇得斯》注释版的重新评估（2016年）揭示了弥尔顿对新教人文主义评论的深入研究，以及这些评论如何影响了他的悲剧《参孙》的设计和政治。弥尔顿幸存的一些注释书籍包括希腊诗歌，主要是关于预言的，也就是《阿拉图斯现象》和《利科弗龙·亚历山德拉》我会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，比如弥尔顿与胡格诺派学者约瑟夫·斯卡利格1564年翻译利科弗龙的《亚历山德拉》的广泛互动，尤其是斯卡利格在翻译利科弗龙的预言语言时使用了维吉尔的典喻，这极大地预示了一些论点，比如古典主义者尼古拉斯·霍斯福尔（1991）的观点，“利科弗龙给了维吉尔一个指示，告诉他预言的话语是如何联系神话和历史世界的”。我将以古典主义者David Sansone的观点（2006）为基础，即利科弗龙的预言语言“类似于（弥尔顿的）利西达斯中圣彼得的预言”，通过展示弥尔顿是如何与人文主义学者如Scaliger在他阅读希腊诗歌时的接触，塑造了他自己诗歌的预言语言。

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.