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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... idea of the publication of Milton's work during 1632-1731 . The contemporary printing of his poetry and prose is related in some detail because of its interest to students of Milton and its relationship to the kind of reception ...
... idea of the publication of Milton's work during 1632-1731 . The contemporary printing of his poetry and prose is related in some detail because of its interest to students of Milton and its relationship to the kind of reception ...
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... rationale . Third : Milton's ideas - particularly in Paradise Lost — either obfuscate any literary worth , for they are deplorable , inconsistent , ' dead ' ; or they provide , in a sense , all knowledge , all 3 INTRODUCTION.
... rationale . Third : Milton's ideas - particularly in Paradise Lost — either obfuscate any literary worth , for they are deplorable , inconsistent , ' dead ' ; or they provide , in a sense , all knowledge , all 3 INTRODUCTION.
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... ideas in a long biographical statement encased in The Reason of Church - Government ( published in February 1642 ) . Whatever he would finally decide to pursue , we know from this statement ( No. 9 ) that it would attempt to inculcate ...
... ideas in a long biographical statement encased in The Reason of Church - Government ( published in February 1642 ) . Whatever he would finally decide to pursue , we know from this statement ( No. 9 ) that it would attempt to inculcate ...
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... ideas about tragedy were elaborated in a preface to Samson Agonistes ( No. 22 ) , but they were not examined by critics until 1751 , when Johnson and Richard Hurd individually explored the drama's Aristote- lian elements . The question ...
... ideas about tragedy were elaborated in a preface to Samson Agonistes ( No. 22 ) , but they were not examined by critics until 1751 , when Johnson and Richard Hurd individually explored the drama's Aristote- lian elements . The question ...
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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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Action Adam and Eve Addison admirable Aeneas Aeneid Allegory allusions ancient appear Aristotle Author Battel beautiful blank verse Book of Paradise Characters Charles Gildon Circumstances Creation criticism Death described Description Divine Dryden Earth edition Epic Poem Epick Episode Essay Extract from John Fable fame Fault Genius give Gods hath Heaven Hero Heroic Poem Homer Homer and Virgil Ideas Iliad Images Imagination Imitation infernal Invention John Dennis John Dryden John Milton Judgment kind Language Latin learned Leonard Welsted likewise literary Majesty Mankind Manner Milton's Poem Mind modern Nature noble Numbers observe Opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd particular Passage Passion Persons Place Poet Poetical Poetry printed proper prose Reader Religion Remarks represented rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan Scripture Sentiments shew shewn Sonnet 17 speak Spectator Speech Spirit Stile Subject sublime take Notice thing thou Thoughts tion Tragedy Translated Virgil wherein Words World writ writing