Sublime Reciprocity in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth

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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on CitationsConspectus: Reciprocal Expression in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth1. Paradise Lost and the "Reciprocal"2. Kant and Milton’s Reciprocal Expression3. "Light out of darkness" in Paradise Lost: "Answering" God’s "great Idea"4. Wordsworth’s Kantian Ideas: The View from "Yew-Trees"5. Wordsworth with Milton and Kant in "The Ruined Cottage" and the Immortality Ode6. The Miltonic-Kantian Prelude: "A power like one of Nature’s"Appendix: Harold Bloom on the Trope of ‘Transumption’ in Paradise LostIndex

With an intellectual strenuousness of thought equal to his ambitious topic, Budick in this magisterial work reads Milton and Wordsworth not as mere versifiers of ideas developed by philosophers but as themselves productive of philosophical insight, even as he demonstrates the constructive value of the aesthetic in Kant’s philosophical reasoning.