The Figure of Echo: a Mode of Allusion in Milton and After by John Hollander
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The Figure of Echo: a Mode of Allusion in Milton and After by John Hollander, published in 1981. This work examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study of the rhetorical status of the figure of echo and an examination of the ancient and newly interesting trope of metalepsis, or transumption, which it appears to embody. Centered on ways in which Milton’s poetry echoes, and is echoed by, other texts, The Figure of Echo also explores Spenser and other Renaissance writers; romantic poets such as Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth; and modern poets including Hardy, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, Williams, and Hart Crane. Hardcover with original jacket with only the very lightest if any shelfwear. Previous owners extensive very neat penciled notations throughout as well as precise underlining in pencil.
