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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... live very much in privacy and alone ; he was not become hoarse or mute . And what strength of mind was it , that could not only support him under the weight of these misfortunes , but enable him to soar to such heights , as no human ...
... Live well , how long or short permit to Heav'n . ' [ 12.549-550 ] It is in the last books that Milton most speaks of reason contending with passion and of the necessity of imposing limits on the desire for knowledge . Control has become ...
... live in an age of refugees , of migrants , vagrants , nomads roaming about the continents and warming their souls with the memory of their spiritual or ethnic , divine or geographical , real or imaginary - home . A total homelessness is ...
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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