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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... Paradise Lost 1680 89 32 PETTIT on Milton's advancement of papal aims 1680 33 ROSCOMMON on Paradise Lost 1685 90 92 ... Milton's fame 1693 ( ? ) 100 41 DRYDEN on Paradise Lost 1693 ΙΟΙ 42 PHILLIPS on various works 1694 103 43 ADDISON on ...
... Paradise Lost 1680 89 32 PETTIT on Milton's advancement of papal aims 1680 33 ROSCOMMON on Paradise Lost 1685 90 92 ... Milton's fame 1693 ( ? ) 100 41 DRYDEN on Paradise Lost 1693 ΙΟΙ 42 PHILLIPS on various works 1694 103 43 ADDISON on ...
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... Milton's reputation 1719 231 73 GILDON on Milton's immortality 1721 232 74 DENNIS on Paradise Lost 1721–2 233 75 ATTERBURY on the ' Original MS . ' and Samson Agonistes 1722 243 76 WELSTED on Milton's language 1724 244 77 FENTON on Paradise ...
... Milton's reputation 1719 231 73 GILDON on Milton's immortality 1721 232 74 DENNIS on Paradise Lost 1721–2 233 75 ATTERBURY on the ' Original MS . ' and Samson Agonistes 1722 243 76 WELSTED on Milton's language 1724 244 77 FENTON on Paradise ...
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... Milton's language or subject - matter ( almost entirely from the poems ) ... Milton's reception and fluctuat- ing reputation , the controversies and adulation ... Paradise Lost , which , in a way , marks a new stage in Milton's reputation ...
... Milton's language or subject - matter ( almost entirely from the poems ) ... Milton's reception and fluctuat- ing reputation , the controversies and adulation ... Paradise Lost , which , in a way , marks a new stage in Milton's reputation ...
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... Milton and its relationship to the kind of reception available to Milton in his lifetime . In 1688 , fourteen years after Milton's death , the fourth edition of Paradise Lost was issued , sponsored by Lord Somers , with the first ...
... Milton and its relationship to the kind of reception available to Milton in his lifetime . In 1688 , fourteen years after Milton's death , the fourth edition of Paradise Lost was issued , sponsored by Lord Somers , with the first ...
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... Milton's estimate of his own worth , his aims in writing , and his actions ... Milton's language and verse are Latinate ( and thus either good or bad ... Paradise Lost , originating with Milton's preliminary statement to the poem ...
... Milton's estimate of his own worth , his aims in writing , and his actions ... Milton's language and verse are Latinate ( and thus either good or bad ... Paradise Lost , originating with Milton's preliminary statement to the poem ...
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