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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... meaning of Paradise Lost . The style , the versification , the celestial geography , the thought , who is the hero : all these have concerned the critics far more than what the poem is really about , the true state of Milton's mind when ...
... meaning . This meaning is apprehended through what become its parts when one is limited to anything but an all- inclusive glance . As the reader moves ( irregularly ) toward this illuminative height , the divisions into books and ...
... meaning to another , or by absorbing the divergent meanings . Such a critic might , for instance , argue that Eve's disheveled wantonness is only a momentary suspension of the harmony of creation ( and of Milton's poem ) , that this ...
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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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