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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... associated ideas . Like the dwelling - place of our infancy revisited in manhood , like the song of our country heard in a strange land , they produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One transports us ...
... . That Milton himself clearly associated such views with the sense of distance and perspective given by the telescope is evident from his actual references in these Twentieth - Century Critical Responses 217 Marjorie Nicolson.
... associated with growing interest in mountains and in mountainous scenery ; but in this delight , as well as in the sense of perspective and awareness of space which enters English writing after Paradise Lost , there is in part a direct ...
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Milton and the Telescope | 14 |
Dominant Residual | 18 |
An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France And also Upon | 23 |
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