TY - BOOK AU - Reisner,Noam TI - Milton and the ineffable T2 - Oxford English monographs SN - 9780199572625 (hbk.) U1 - 821.4 R N M 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Milton, John, KW - Ineffable, The, in literature KW - English poetry KW - 17th century KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-308) and index; Silence and presence: ineffability in ancient and medieval Western thought -- The power and illusion of words: renegotiating ineffable presence in the advent of humanism and reform -- Milton's Poems 1645: the problem with soaring -- Paradise Lost: pretending to say the unsayable -- Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes: the ineffable self -- Epilogue: Wittgenstein's verdict ER -