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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... sense of that which contains man - in fact , simultaneously a sense of individual will and of universal necessity . The single sense of these two irreconcilables is what Milton's poetry has to symbolize . Could they be reconciled , the ...
Timothy Miller. simply the sense of human existence occurring in destiny ; that brings in destiny only mediately , through that which is destined . He has to express the sense of destiny immediately , at the same time as he expresses its ...
... sense that time is the devourer of life , the mouth of hell at the previous moment , when the potential passes forever into the actual , or , in its ultimate horror , Macbeth's sense of it as simply one clock tick after another . Frank ...
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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