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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... perhaps , who revered the ancients with such affectionate enthusiasm , has copied them so little . This was partly owing to the creative opulence of his own genius , and partly to his having fixed on a subject so different from those of ...
... perhaps possible to make it look more apparent than real ) , the dualism can be unavoidably declared by putting it entirely in terms of consciousness : destiny creating within itself an existence which stands against and apart from ...
... perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes , as they should not willingly let it die . These thoughts at once possessed me , and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men buy leases , for three lives and downward ...
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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