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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... Angels to have been , that God , upon a certain day in Heaven , before the Creation of this Lower World , did summon all the Angels to Attend , and then Declar'd His Son to be their Lord and King ; and Applies to that Day the 7th ...
... Angels , or of Man the Companion of Angels , divinely entertain❜d us with the wondrous Works of God ; in the latter end of his Poem , and more particularly , in the last Book , he makes an Angel entertain us with the Works of corrupted ...
... angels a portion of space which seemed to those still angelic beings to confine them , in spite of the fact that their " adventurous bands " were to discover vast continents of ice and snow , dark and dreary vales , “ a gulf profound as ...
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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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