Description:
An analysis of the poetic line in Milton that considers the resources made available to the poet by lineation, and how Milton explored and exploited them more resourcefully than any other English poet.
Review Quotes: "Creaser reveals Milton's mastery of all elements of poetic expression and compares him favorably with poets past and present." -- Choice
"Creaser writes brilliantly about one of the aspects of poetry to which lineation gives prominence, and which in his readings can connect not only line-with-line, but connect up andeven constitute the compelling structure of a poem as a whole: end-rhyme, and its embraces." -- Tom Lockwood, The Seventeenth Century"Milton and the Resources of the Line is a large and formidable piece of criticism, the fruit of decades of teaching and writing, and one which demands the constant attention of the reader." -- Nicholas McDowell, The Spenser Review