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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... language 1724 244 77 FENTON on Paradise Lost 1725 245 78 BURNET'S notice after 1700 79 VOLTAIRE on Milton 1727 80 LYTTLETON on Milton 1728 81 SALMON on Abdiel 1728 247 248 257 258 82 DENNIS on Milton's poetical fire 1729 260 83 CLARKE ...
... language 1724 244 77 FENTON on Paradise Lost 1725 245 78 BURNET'S notice after 1700 79 VOLTAIRE on Milton 1727 80 LYTTLETON on Milton 1728 81 SALMON on Abdiel 1728 247 248 257 258 82 DENNIS on Milton's poetical fire 1729 260 83 CLARKE ...
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... language or subject - matter ( almost entirely from the poems ) , either for praise or satire . The number of longer essays or studies devoted exclusively to Milton are few , and the bulk of material falls into the category of ...
... language or subject - matter ( almost entirely from the poems ) , either for praise or satire . The number of longer essays or studies devoted exclusively to Milton are few , and the bulk of material falls into the category of ...
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... languages and those generally repetitive of statements included ) are cited in Appendix C. The basis for selection has been , simply , critical value . Mere allusions or citations from the works have been omitted . William Riley Parker ...
... languages and those generally repetitive of statements included ) are cited in Appendix C. The basis for selection has been , simply , critical value . Mere allusions or citations from the works have been omitted . William Riley Parker ...
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... language and verse are Latinate ( and thus either good or bad according to the critic's grinding - axe ; though usually bad ) , or they are sublime ( whether Latinate or not ) . The now more usual twentieth - century view that the language ...
... language and verse are Latinate ( and thus either good or bad according to the critic's grinding - axe ; though usually bad ) , or they are sublime ( whether Latinate or not ) . The now more usual twentieth - century view that the language ...
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... language poems or translations . ) The dating of this manu- script depends upon the date of a letter to an unknown friend drafted therein and the date of ' Arcades ' - for no earlier poem appears . How- ever , the manuscript may have ...
... language poems or translations . ) The dating of this manu- script depends upon the date of a letter to an unknown friend drafted therein and the date of ' Arcades ' - for no earlier poem appears . How- ever , the manuscript may have ...
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