“So Were I Equalled in Renown:” Autobiographical Elements and the Epic Poet's Career in Milton

Maria Rita Drumond Viana; Andrey Felipe Martins

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n1p71

Autores

Maria Rita Drumond Viana Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-3375
Andrey Felipe Martins UFSC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2193-3216

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n1p71

Resumo

John Milton é outlier entre os poetas do século XVII em seu extenso recurso a detalhes de sua vida pessoal, que são parte integrante, encoberta ou explicitamente, de suas muitas obras. Desde o início da "Ode Natividade" em diante, podemos identificar passagens confessionais em muitos de seus poemas que podem ser lidos autobiografica- mente. O que chama a atenção para o caso de Milton é que ele também prefigura uma importante revolução cultural e política, na qual a legitimidade da consciência individual foi reavaliada. O objetivo principal deste artigo é explorar momentos específicos na obra de Milton, em que a veia autobiográfica entra em foco. Diferentemente de seu trabalho mais maduro, no qual ele não vacila em confiança, nos escritos anteriores podemos identificar as dúvidas e ansiedades de um aprendiz de poeta de aspiração sem limites.

Biografia do Autor

Maria Rita Drumond Viana, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Maria Rita Drumond Viana is a lecturer and researcher at the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). She obtained her PhD on the letters of W. B. Yeats from the Universidade de São Paulo, with a Visiting Doctoral Student scholarship at the University of Oxford, under the guidance of R. F. Foster. She was elected a member of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson college during twice during the academic year of 2013-2014. Her research interests include Irish Studies, W. B. Yeats, nonfictional genres, epistolography, English and Irish romanticism and modernism, poetry, and literary adaptation and translation. At UFSC she coordinates the Irish Studies Research Cluster and a research group on the various nonfictional genres called Other Literatures.

Andrey Felipe Martins, UFSC

Andrey Felipe Martins is a Master of Arts candidate in the Graduate Program in English Language/Literature at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and is writing his thesis on a queer reading of Wuthering Heights under the supervision of Eliana de Souza Ávila. His research interests, however, also include early modern poetry and philosophy

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