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Sublime Reciprocity in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth

Sanford Budick
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      In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of ‘first matter’ are centrally located in ‘Light Ethereal, first of things’, ‘that light’, as Raphael explains, that is constituted from its inhering ‘reciprocal’ forces. This study argues that the workings of this Miltonic reciprocity were first understood in concrete specificity by Immanuel Kant, though buried on two intricately argued manuscript pages of his Opus postumum. Almost as remarkable as Kant’s Miltonic recognitions, William Wordsworth – directly inspired by earlier Kantian ideas of reciprocity and of the sublime – made his own way to this Miltonic poetics of co-existent being, most spectacularly in The Prelude. In this fascinating study, Budick demonstrates how Milton, Kant and Wordsworth together offer a revolutionary understanding of the function of poetry in the quest of human consciousness for participation in being.

      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Sanford Budick EAN: 9781399541145 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 264 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 234 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Edinburgh University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-07-31 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form WIDTH: 156 mm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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      Sanford Budick is Emeritus Professor of English at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was formerly Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published six monographs, two of which won the Hanford Award of the Milton Society and has edited three collections of essays on key issues in literary studies.

      In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of ‘first matter’ are centrally located in ‘Light Ethereal, first of things’, ‘that light’, as Raphael explains, that is constituted from its inhering ‘reciprocal’ forces. This study argues that the workings of this Miltonic reciprocity were first understood in concrete specificity by Immanuel Kant, though buried on two intricately argued manuscript pages of his Opus postumum. Almost as remarkable as Kant’s Miltonic recognitions, William Wordsworth – directly inspired by earlier Kantian ideas of reciprocity and of the sublime – made his own way to this Miltonic poetics of co-existent being, most spectacularly in The Prelude. In this fascinating study, Budick demonstrates how Milton, Kant and Wordsworth together offer a revolutionary understanding of the function of poetry in the quest of human consciousness for participation in being.

      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Sanford Budick EAN: 9781399541145 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 264 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 234 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Edinburgh University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-07-31 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form WIDTH: 156 mm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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      Sanford Budick is Emeritus Professor of English at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was formerly Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published six monographs, two of which won the Hanford Award of the Milton Society and has edited three collections of essays on key issues in literary studies.

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