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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... lived many years , much visited by all strangers , and much admired by all at home for the poems he writ ; chiefly that of Paradise Lost , in which there is a nobleness both of contrivance and execution , that ... it was esteemed the ...
... lived . Human nature in these ages is indebted to him for its best portrait .... But the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him , to be realized in the life and conversation men , inspired every act and every writing of ...
... lived with the poets . An appreciation of Milton is the last reward of consummated scholarship . Matthew Arnold , " Milton , " Essays in Criticism ( London , 1889 ) 59-68 . [ An address presented in St. Margaret's Church , Westminster ...
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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