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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... Soul : now all the Ideas of God are such , that the more large and comprehensive the Soul of a Poet is , and the more it is capable of receiving those Ideas , the more it is sure to be raised , and filled , and lifted to the Skies with ...
... Soul to its Maker , and shew , as the Apostle 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 ...
... soul . For , it is the inert effort of each thought , having formed itself into a cicular wave of circumstance , -as , for instance , an empire , rules of an art , a local usage , a religious rite , -to heap itself on that ridge , and ...
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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