The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise LostTimothy Miller Bloomsbury Academic, 1997 M04 22 - 337 pages Paradise Lost was recognized as a major epic poem soon after its publication in 1667. For more than three centuries, critics have been describing, interpreting, and evaluating it. Regardless of their approaches to changing literary values, they have generally accepted it as the prime example of the epic in English. As many critics have observed, the poem brought biblical, literary, cultural, social, scientific, and political elements into such aesthetic harmony that even its detractors have been forced to recognize its greatness. And because of its complexity, it has become a test case in literary studies as a focal point for changing critical assumptions and literary values. This reference book traces the critical reception of Paradise Lost from the 17th century to the present. The volume is organized in chapters devoted to particular centuries, with each chapter presenting a selection of reviews and critical essays from that period. Thus the reader is able to chart the changing response to ^IParadise Lost^R over time. An introductory essay summarizes the reception of Milton's work, and a bibliography lists important sources of additional information. |
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... Action which it relates is more or less so . This Action should have three Qualifications in it . First , It should be but one Action . Secondly , It should be an entire Action ; and Thirdly , It should be a great Action . To consider the ...
... Action , they follow them in the Disposition of the Poem . Milton , in Imitation of these two great Poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an Infernal Council plotting the Fall of Man , which is the Action he proposed to celebrate ; and ...
... action is not on earth , but in the mundane spaces round the earth ; the sum of the extramundane action and the non- terrestrial action within the mundus taken together considerably exceeds all that is left of the properly terrestrial ...
Contents
Milton and the Telescope | 14 |
Dominant Residual | 18 |
An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France And also Upon | 23 |
Copyright | |
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