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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... Hero . I think I have obviated this Objection in my first Paper . The Paradise Lost is an Epic , or a Narrative Poem , he that looks for an Hero in it , searches for that which Milton never intended ; but if he will needs fix the Name ...
... Hero , or Who he is . ' tis Adam , Adam , the First , the Representative of Human Race ; He is the Hero in This Poem , though as in Other Heroic Poems , Superiour Beings are Introduc'd . the Business of it is to conduct Man through ...
... hero of the tale . This is considered as essential to Epic Composition , and is attended with several advantages . It renders the unity of the subject more sensible , when there is one principal figure , to which , as to a centre , all ...
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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