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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... Language , and giving it a Poetical Turn , is to make use of the Idioms of other Tongues . Virgil if full of the Greek Forms of Speech , which the Criticks call Hellenisms , as Horace in his Odes abounds with them much more than Virgil ...
... Language , and with which Milton has so very much enriched , and in some places darkned the Language of his Poem , was the more proper for his use , because his Poem is written in Blank Verse . Rhyme , without any other Assistance ...
... language . This novelty has been , by those who can find nothing wrong in Milton , imputed to his laborious endeavours after words suitable to the grandeur of his ideas . " Our language , " says Addison , " sunk under him . " But the ...
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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