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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... understand it . And when a writer of Mr. Allen Tate's repute as critic , poet and intellectual leader , telling us that Milton should be ' made ' to ' influence poetry once more , ' shows that he too doesn't understand , then one may ...
... understand now ? ” And in his response the reader will give his answer . What I have said here with reference to the single problem of heroism applies to other problems and to other patternings . In Book III , God delivers a speech ...
... understand why it is so , unless it also adds reasons " ( CPW 9 : 319 ) . Most of humanity most of the time is in between : we perceive the validity of familiar axioms and of some newly considered axioms . But very complex truths or ...
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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