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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... poem before Milton presented him with a printed copy apparently bound with an edition of Thomas Randolph's poems ... Hero ' ( all printed in the second edition of the minor poems in 1673 ) , and two Latin fragments found with an early ...
... poem before Milton presented him with a printed copy apparently bound with an edition of Thomas Randolph's poems ... Hero ' ( all printed in the second edition of the minor poems in 1673 ) , and two Latin fragments found with an early ...
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... epic . Generally Milton and his poem are praised highly . He is viewed as the chief representative of the heroic tradition in England , following a line of comparison with Homer and Vergil . The translation of Longinus into English ...
... epic . Generally Milton and his poem are praised highly . He is viewed as the chief representative of the heroic tradition in England , following a line of comparison with Homer and Vergil . The translation of Longinus into English ...
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... poem ( that it did not conform with classic rules of decorum and heroic verses ) , and Dennis is objecting to the apparently too frequent inferior imita- tions of Milton's style and substance . These accounts suggest that the poem was ...
... poem ( that it did not conform with classic rules of decorum and heroic verses ) , and Dennis is objecting to the apparently too frequent inferior imita- tions of Milton's style and substance . These accounts suggest that the poem was ...
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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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