E211: British Literature to 1760

Milton's Paradise Lost: Modes and Genres

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Professor Harold Toliver, UCI Emeritus

I. Modes

Lyric

aubade
epithalamion
monodic and choric hymn
prayer, even song, orison
elegy (apobaterion)
ode
proem, invocation
love sonnet
creation songs and hymns (Books 7-8)

Dramatic:

dialogue and dialectic
debate
soliloquy
apostrophe

Narrative:

autobiography
chronicle
apocalyptic
prophetic
typological

Descriptive:

heroic, romantic, pastoral, etc.
encyclopedic (hexaemeral)

Rhetoric: forensic (judicial), deliberative (advisory), epideictic (ceremonial)

II. Kinds

allegory
tragedy
comedy
satire and parody
heroic
pastoral
georgic
romance