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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-3 van 38
... Force and Elevation to Poetry ; we shall now endeavour to convince the Reader , that Poetry is proper , if not necessary , to give Force to that Religion . For indeed there are Duties in this Religion , which cannot be worthily perform ...
... force centered on the sun as soon as the heavenly spheres were abolished by the work of Kepler in 1609 , since ... force could be described and calculated for every point in space , and to show that a similar force was centered on every ...
... force or truth of the individual soul . For , it is the inert effort of each thought , having formed itself into a cicular wave of circumstance , -as , for instance , an empire , rules of an art , a local usage , a religious rite , -to ...
Inhoudsopgave
Milton and the Telescope | 14 |
Dominant Residual | 18 |
An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France And also Upon | 23 |
Copyright | |
22 andere gedeelten niet getoond