The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise LostTimothy Miller Bloomsbury Academic, 22 apr 1997 - 337 pagina's 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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... admirable Images are here crouding upon one another ? So natural and peculiar to the Subject , that they would have been as absurd and extravagant in any other , as they are wonderful just in this . And yet , even in this Subject ...
... Admiration , as being the most glorious and admirable Beings of the Creation , and which lead the Soul immediately to its Creator . Next to these come the other Creatures of the immaterial World , as Demons , Apparitions of all sorts ...
... admirable . We name those things wonderful , which we admire with fear . The next Ideas that are most proper to produce the Enthusiasm of Admiration , are the great Phaenomena of the Material World ; because they too lead the Soul to ...
Inhoudsopgave
Milton and the Telescope | 14 |
Dominant Residual | 18 |
An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France And also Upon | 23 |
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