Download or read book The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens written by Henry Weinfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blank verse has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance, most famously in Shakespeare's plays and in Paradise Lost. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of form.