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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... Imitation is a nice point , and there are few Poets who deserve to be Models in all they write . Milton's Paradice Lost is admirable ; but am I therefore bound to maintain , that there are no flats amongst his Elevations , when ' tis ...
... imitation . Milton , it is said , inherited what his predecessors created ; he lived in an enlightened age ; he received a finished education ; and we must therefore , if we would form a just estimate of his powers , make large ...
... imitation is on the surface , and does not touch the core of that mysterious combination of traditive with original elements in diction , which Milton and Virgil , alone of poets known to us , have effected . Here and there , many times ...
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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