This essay suggests “anti-liturgy” to describe Milton’s three late poems as a unified project in devotional verse, and to account for their avant-garde impulse to make the present strange. These qualities are brought into conversation with the posture on liturgy in Milton’s early poems, with Milton’s remarks on justification in De doctrina Christiana, with Catherine Pickstock’s arguments on liturgy, and with Alain Badiou’s thought on poetry and truth. For the late Milton, knowledge of futurity is a potter’s vessel dashed to pieces in an encounter with the eternal.

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弥尔顿的后期诗歌作为反礼仪

本文提出了“反礼仪”，将米尔顿的三首晚诗描述为灵修诗中的一个统一项目，并解释了它们使前世变得奇怪的前卫冲动。这些特质与米尔顿早期诗歌中的礼仪态度，米尔顿在《基督教学说》中对正当性的评论，凯瑟琳·皮斯托克（Catherine Pickstock）关于礼仪的论点以及阿兰·巴迪欧（Alain Badiou）关于诗歌和真理的思想进行了讨论。对于已故的弥尔顿来说，关于未来的知识是在与永恒的encounter中陶器的容器破灭。