John Milton: The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1628-1731John T. Shawcross The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. |
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... author's reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition . The volumes will make available much material which would otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped ...
... author's reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition . The volumes will make available much material which would otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped ...
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... authors or subjects , and from longer essays or studies ( though extracts from the various lives and biographical notices are included only when critical judgement or information useful for evaluation is expressed ) . The very important ...
... authors or subjects , and from longer essays or studies ( though extracts from the various lives and biographical notices are included only when critical judgement or information useful for evaluation is expressed ) . The very important ...
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... authors , too little changed or else greatly improved upon ; his poetry succeeds because it is based on classic form and ... author because of inadequate results or misconceived inten- tions . Second : Milton's language and verse are ...
... authors , too little changed or else greatly improved upon ; his poetry succeeds because it is based on classic form and ... author because of inadequate results or misconceived inten- tions . Second : Milton's language and verse are ...
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... The Passion ' in the 1645 edition of his Poems : " This subject the Author finding to be above the yeers he had , when he wrote it , and nothing satisfi'd with what was begun , left it unfinisht ' . The poem on S INTRODUCTION.
... The Passion ' in the 1645 edition of his Poems : " This subject the Author finding to be above the yeers he had , when he wrote it , and nothing satisfi'd with what was begun , left it unfinisht ' . The poem on S INTRODUCTION.
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... author by initials only ; the poem on the Marchioness and one copy of the Hobson poem beginning ' Here lieth one who did most truly prove ' are attributed to ' Jo Milton of Chr : Coll Cambr ' : and ' Jo : Milton ' respectively ; but the ...
... author by initials only ; the poem on the Marchioness and one copy of the Hobson poem beginning ' Here lieth one who did most truly prove ' are attributed to ' Jo Milton of Chr : Coll Cambr ' : and ' Jo : Milton ' respectively ; but the ...
Contents
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Personal Statements and Contemporary Evaluations 16281674 | 35 |
Further Seventeenthcentury Comment 16751699 | 84 |
Eighteenthcentury Comment to Bentleys Edition of Paradise Lost 17001731 | 124 |
APPENDICES | 265 |
INDEX | 271 |
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