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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... true , but it is to be doubted if the poet himself would have valued an immortality of fame accorded to him only on such terms . The theme of his epic was to him no poetic fiction , and a judgment of his work based on this assumption ...
... true experience from this great event ' [ Samson Agonistes 1755-1756 ] which makes it more than a masterpiece of language and technique , more than a fabulous mine of learning . These are generalities . What exactly , one may ask , did ...
... true form , which I identified with the form of the reader's experience . That experience , however , does not lend itself to the kind of description one usually associates with the word " formal " ; here are no readily discernible ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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