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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... speeches in council , his soliloquies , his address to Eve , his share in the war in heaven , or in the fall of man , show the same decided superiority of character . To give only one instance , almost the first speech he makes ...
... speech than in speeches , and these never delivered without the audible overtones of God's providence . ( The diminished Satan of Paradise Regained is more nearly individual . ) Yet Satan is always interesting as character ; his public ...
... speech whose arguments , if they are understood , assure a correct reading of the crucial scene in Book IX . At irregular intervals , phrases from this " ur speech " are repeated ( I am thinking especially of " sufficient to have stood ...
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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