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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... effect . An eminent painter of France use to say , that in reading Homer he felt his nerves dilated , and he seemed to increase in stature . Such an ideal effect as Homer , in this example , produced on the body , Milton produces in the ...
... effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it , would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the door ...
... effect is to be found in his conception of the world , which , when compared with earlier cosmic poems , indicates the effect of the new astronomy . It must be remembered a point which is too frequently neglected that when Milton uses ...
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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