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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... Passions and the Senses at the same Time . For we shew'd in the former Part of this Treatise , that Passion , whether Ordinary or Enthusiastick , is the principal Thing in Poetry ; and nothing is more certain , than that the more the ...
... Passions or Enthusiasm in that Hymn is exactly in Nature ; that is , that the Enthusiasm , or Passion , or Spirit , call it what you will , flows from the Ideas , and bears a just Proportion to them . But from hence at the same time if ...
... passion , as perfectly as the Greek and Latin . Hence the occasional harshness in the construction . Sublimity is ... passions , invested with a dramatic reality . The apostrophe to light at the commencement of the third book is ...
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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