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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... poetry directly reflecting Milton's influence in thought , poetic form , allusion , or imitation ( see the works of ... epic by John Baptista de Medina . It is the first edition of a poem to owe its existence to printing by subscrip ...
... poetry directly reflecting Milton's influence in thought , poetic form , allusion , or imitation ( see the works of ... 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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... poetry and an idealist who found himself too often diverted from poetry out of a personal sense of duty . The mention of Milton's ideals for poetry raises the question of the date of his decision to become a poet . The epic themes noted ...
... poetry and an idealist who found himself too often diverted from poetry out of a personal sense of duty . The mention of Milton's ideals for poetry raises the question of the date of his decision to become a poet . The epic themes noted ...
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... Poems in these English ones are as ... poem . He carried this dream with him to Italy , where he articulated the thought in a verse epistle to Gianbattista Manso , the literary patron of Tasso and Marino . The subject of Milton's verse epic ...
... Poems in these English ones are as ... poem . He carried this dream with him to Italy , where he articulated the thought in a verse epistle to Gianbattista Manso , the literary patron of Tasso and Marino . The subject of Milton's verse epic ...
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... poem's thesis and theme . In the ensuing years the barbarous dissonance of the unfit audience , one largely opposed to Milton as a man and to Paradise Lost as epic , has often drowned the Harp and Voice . Milton's note on the verse of ...
... poem's thesis and theme . In the ensuing years the barbarous dissonance of the unfit audience , one largely opposed to Milton as a man and to Paradise Lost as epic , has often drowned the Harp and Voice . Milton's note on the verse of ...
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... poet and especially Paradise Lost , there was much activity in three areas at this time : editions , biography and biographical notices , and commentary on the epic . Generally Milton and his poem are praised highly . He is viewed as ...
... poet and especially Paradise Lost , there was much activity in three areas at this time : editions , biography and biographical notices , and commentary on the epic . Generally Milton and his poem are praised highly . He is viewed as ...
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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