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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... kind of Implex Fable , wherein the Event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind ; notwithstanding many excellent Pieces among the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late ...
... kind from that of Homer . Homer's is generally accompanied with fire and impetuosity ; Milton's possesses more of a calm and amazing grandeur . Homer warms and hurries us along ; Milton fixes us in a state of astonishment and elevation ...
... kind of poetry and it is not Milton's kind . That is , to repeat the brief definition given before , poetry which simultaneously embraces diverse planes of experience and is characterized by realistic immediacy , particularity , and ...
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Milton and the Telescope | 14 |
Dominant Residual | 18 |
An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France And also Upon | 23 |
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