Sublime Reciprocity in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth
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Immanuel Kant
intentionality
John Milton
reciprocity
sublime
William Wordsworth
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- ISBN 9781399541145
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
