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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... earth , but there were to be connexions of that infant earth with the grander pre - human realms of being , out of which earth and mankind had sprung , and which still encircled them invisibly . When the fuller epic was schemed these ...
... earth as it seems to those who dwell upon it and to those who survey it from afar , to whom it shows its relative unimportance in the cosmic scheme . To Adam and Eve , as to man at all times , earth seems fixed and secure , the center ...
... earth , " Hell and the gulf between . " We realize it again in the further voyages of Satan - voyages , one may suspect , which were inherited from and which were to influence that group of " voyages to the moon " in which the ...
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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