Epic Poetry and Psychological Complexity (was NPPF Canto 1: 1-4 some random notes)

[Tim Strzechowski]

>
> Hoping that clarifies my previous comments, I remain,
>

By the way, much of what I've heretofore stated is likewise discussed, in
depth, in:

Stanley Fish, _Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost_.  Cambridge:
Harvard U
     Press, 1967.

Barbara K. Lewalski, _The Life of John Milton_. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing, 2003.


And, lest we forget, this discussion of Milton began when I contended that
Shade's poem, though good, lacks a poem/reader dynamic in and of itself,
unlike a poem such as Milton's.  The poem/reader dynamic emerges when
Kinbote begins to misinterpret it.  Consequently, the poem PF achieves its
"greatness" via Kinbote's reading of it.