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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... critics , and of writers working as critics , through chronological selections from each century . Generally , the critical selections concerning the poem as a whole are representative of their particular decades or eras and indicate ...
... critics continued to emphasize its style apart from its ideas and values . As a result , they thought earlier critics had overestimated its artistic merit . 1 V Colleges and universities did not begin to develop courses in the study of ...
... critics continued to respond to the attacks upon the poem ( as a few still do ) , most of them accept Paradise Lost on its own terms as a Christian epic . 9 In the early 1960s , many critics evaluated Paradise Lost on the basis of how ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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