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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... whereas in the first eight Books , he had by the Mouth of God or Angels , or of Man the Companion of Angels , divinely entertain❜d us with the wondrous Works of God ; in the latter end of his Poem , and more particularly , in the last ...
... whereas one who has not these previous Lights , is very often an utter Stranger to what he reads , and apt to put a wrong Interpretation upon it . Nor is it sufficient , that a Man who sets up for a Judge in Criticism , should have ...
... whereas if a Good Writer is not Understood ' tis because his Reader is Unacquainted with , or Incapable of the Subject , or will not Submit to do the Duty of a Reader , which is to Attend Carefully to what he Reads .... and Now ' tis of ...
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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