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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... feel little interest in them , because they have none of the passions , pursuits , or even relations of human life , except that of man and wife , the least interesting of all others , if not to the parties concerned , at least to the ...
... feel it in my power to refuse the poisonous suffrage of a public . from letter to John Hamilton Reynolds 22 ... feeling . Upon my soul ' twas imagination - I cannot make the distinction - Every now and then there is a Miltonic intonation ...
... feel at once , I think , that Mr Bowra's assessment hardly makes contact with what really occurred in it . In the poem as it is there is a fundamental clash : it is a clash between what the poem asserts , on the one hand , and what it ...
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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