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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... says , his eternal Power and Godhead : As the Heavens and Heavenly Bodies , the Sun , the Moon , the Stars , and the Immensity of the Universe , and the Motions of the Heaven and Earth . Witness what Milton says of the Sun , when he ...
... says Addison , " sunk under him . " But the truth is , that , both in prose and verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantick principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is ...
... say decisively that it says only this or that . On the one hand , Milton tries to incorporate Eve within the general economy of creation , to say that like Adam she is still unfallen and free to fall or not . Although in her , as in ...
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Milton and the Telescope | 14 |
Dominant Residual | 18 |
An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France And also Upon | 23 |
Copyright | |
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