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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... as letters and diaries . Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer's death . JOHN MILTON VOLUME 1 , 1628–1731 THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited.
... as letters and diaries . Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer's death . JOHN MILTON VOLUME 1 , 1628–1731 THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited.
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... death 1715 226 69 BLACKMORE on epic poetry 1716 227 70 ATTERBURY on Milton 1717 229 71 GILDON on heroic poetry 1718 230 72 DENNIS on Milton's reputation 1719 231 73 GILDON on Milton's immortality 1721 232 74 DENNIS on Paradise Lost 1721 ...
... death 1715 226 69 BLACKMORE on epic poetry 1716 227 70 ATTERBURY on Milton 1717 229 71 GILDON on heroic poetry 1718 230 72 DENNIS on Milton's reputation 1719 231 73 GILDON on Milton's immortality 1721 232 74 DENNIS on Paradise Lost 1721 ...
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... death apparently on Sunday , 8 November 1674 , suggests a terminal date around 1700 for this survey ; but the period immediately following 1700 developed many of the concepts which readers will find most significant in Milton criticism ...
... death apparently on Sunday , 8 November 1674 , suggests a terminal date around 1700 for this survey ; but the period immediately following 1700 developed many of the concepts which readers will find most significant in Milton criticism ...
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... death , the fourth edition of Paradise Lost was issued , sponsored by Lord Somers , with the first illustrations of the epic by John Baptista de Medina . It is the first edition of a poem to owe its existence to printing by subscrip ...
... death , the fourth edition of Paradise Lost was issued , sponsored by Lord Somers , with the first illustrations of the epic by John Baptista de Medina . It is the first edition of a poem to owe its existence to printing by subscrip ...
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... death . But the modern genera- tion , with its existential tendencies , has found in Paradise Lost profound and lasting meaning , for it has looked at the poem rather than at the man . In short , Milton's critical heritage in the years ...
... death . But the modern genera- tion , with its existential tendencies , has found in Paradise Lost profound and lasting meaning , for it has looked at the poem rather than at the man . In short , Milton's critical heritage in the years ...
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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