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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... Object , and when it is not so , it is utterly false . And therefore whenever in Poetry there is a great Spirit which is derived from Ideas , whose Objects are unworthy to move the Soul of a great and wise Man , there that Spirit is ...
... object : - It was to justify the ways of God to man ! The controversial spirit observable in many parts of the poem , especially in God's speeches , is immediately . attributable to the great controversy of that age , the origination of ...
... objects was owing to their having acquired an unusual degree of strength in his mind , after the privation of his ... object is given by Milton with equal force and beauty . The strongest and best proof of this , as a characteristic ...
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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