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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... Verse are the best , but the very best of our Epick Poems is writ in the same Verse . And that is the Paradise lost of Milton . And though this may in some Measure be attributed to the admirable and extraordinary Choice of the Subject ...
... verse is the only blank verse in the language ( except Shakespeare's ) that deserves the name of verse . Dr. Johnson , who had modelled his ideas of versification on the regular sing - song of Pope , condemns the Paradise Lost as harsh ...
... verse seems suddenly to have come to life . Yet the pattern remains the same ; there are the same heavy stresses , the same rhythmic gestures and the same cadences , and if one thought a graph of the verse - movement worth drawing it ...
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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