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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... Characters of Homer , a certain Dignity as well as Novelty , which adapts them in a more peculiar manner to the ... Character . - Fortemque Gyan , fortemque Cloanthum [ Virg . ] There are indeed several very natural Incidents in the ...
... character of Satan . But around this character he has thrown a singularity of daring , a grandeur of sufferance , and a ruined splendor , which constitute the very height of poetic sublimity . Lastly , as to the execution : - The ...
... character of Jesus Christ . The Devil is represented as conceiving high indignation at this preference , and as disputing the affair with arms . I cannot discover Milton's authority for this circumstance ; but all agree in the fact of ...
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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