Rewriting Milton: Orality and Writing in Blake's Milton.(William Blake)

MILTON IS A POEM HEAVILY COMMITTED TO THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF acts of writing and to its own writtenness. The only one of Blake's works specifically called a "Poem," its subtitle--"a Poem in 2 Books"-makes clear that its poetic status is specifically attributed to its written form as a book.

Moreover, its ostensible subject matter is the rewriting of the works and influences of an earlier writer and therefore presupposes a significant value in the written word, its transformations and its transformative power. Within the poem itself, Milton is depicted writing ...

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