Appendix: Harold Bloom on the Trope of “Transumption” in Paradise Lost

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Citations x
6. Conspectus: Reciprocal Expression in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth 1
7. 1. Paradise Lost and the “Reciprocal” 36
8. 2. Kant and Milton’s Reciprocal Expression 62
9. 3. “Light out of darkness” in Paradise Lost: “Answering” God’s “great Idea” 98
10. 4. Wordsworth’s Kantian Ideas: The View from “Yew-Trees” 139
11. 5. Wordsworth with Milton and Kant in “The Ruined Cottage” and the Immortality Ode 173
12. 6. The Miltonic-Kantian Prelude: “A power like one of Nature’s” 209
13. Appendix: Harold Bloom on the Trope of “Transumption” in Paradise Lost 237
14. Index 242